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Here's what's happening.
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Federal food regulators raised their alarm for recalled eggs sold from Costco stores over possible salmonella exposure, reclassifying the targeted product to their highest risk level.
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Now, the FDA had previously announced on November 27 that about 10,800 retail units of organic pasture-raised eggs
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24-count eggs sold under Costco's Kirkland Signature brand were being recalled.
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They've expanded that, so be careful.
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Russia launched an inhumane attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Christmas Day with explosions reported across the country, according to Ukraine's president.
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It's the 13th time this year Russia has carried out a major attack on Ukraine's power grid.
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Hamas and Israel traded accusations over delays in finalizing a ceasefire and hostage release deal after both had reported progress in the latest round of Gaza truth talks.
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Indirect negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have taken place in recent days.
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Let's hope they get a settlement.
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Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta, Facebook's instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, and Google Play as a first step to scale back Internet restrictions.
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What the heck is going on in Iran?
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Let's check in with Howard Bloom, our expert.
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Howard, what's happening there?
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Well, things are not going well for the government of Iran or for its people.
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Its proxy armies are in shambles.
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In Gaza, Hamas is a mere shadow of its earlier self.
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Its men are hiding wherever they can find the biggest crowd of civilians to use as human shields.
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And in Lebanon, Hezbollah has been stung by exploding pagers, has lost 80% of its rocket arsenal, has lost key segments of its military tunnel system, and has lost the villages on the Lebanese-Israeli border that hid underground concrete bunkers stocked with weapons to pull off more October 7th-style attacks on the Jews of Israel.
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What's more, the fall of Syria has threatened to tear apart Iran's circle of proxies, its ring of fire, its axis of resistance.
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Meanwhile, back in the Iranian homeland, inflation is driving the standard of living down.
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Paychecks are being delayed.
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Power outages are sweeping the country.
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The military has lost its air defense system.
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There are protests in the streets, and the regime is increasingly using the death penalty.
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So it may seem like a strange time
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to lift the ban on two apps from the great Satan, from the Iranian regime's sworn enemy, the United States.
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Yes, apps from the very United States that Iran sees as the source of all the world's evils.
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Apps from the United States that Iran intends to topple one of these days.
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But Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace, yes, there is such a thing, headed by Iran's new president, Massoud Pajaxian,
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has unanimously agreed to lift the bans on WhatsApp and Google Play.
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And the council has made it clear that this is just the first step.
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More internet freedoms are to come.
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Why?
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Why this move toward more liberties when crowds have taken to the streets, security forces have been deployed, and you think the government will be clamping down?
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I suspect that the answer lies in Syria.
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Iran propped up Bashar al-Assad, Syria's dictator.
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For 13 years, Iran supplied advice and weapons.
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Iran's puppet army in Lebanon, Hezbollah, provided troops to fight on the Assyrian regime's behalf in the civil war that began in 2011, the year of the Arab Spring.
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And Syria was one of Iran's faithful allies.
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Then just two weeks ago, on December 8th, the Assad regime fell suddenly, unexpectedly, on that Sunday morning.
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Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus and sought refuge in Moscow, and his wife immediately filed for divorce.
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A new power, the Islamic fundamentalist army called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, took Syria over.
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For Iran, this was a blow.
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Iran's religious leaders had to figure out how to prevent anything like Assad's sudden downfall from happening in Iran.
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And the ruling elite came to a strange conclusion.
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Syria fell, some said, because Bashar al-Assad was not listening to his people.
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Assad was not giving his people what they wanted.
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Instead, he was imposing his will.
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As Mohammad Bashar Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, put it, Assad was dodging the path of dialogue with the people.
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After all, the founding father of the Iranian revolution.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had said in 1979 that only Islamic democracy is correct, and democracy means occasionally hearing the voice of the people.
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So yes, while the current Iranian Supreme Leader's people were being forced to buy cheaper foods by inflation, while the paychecks of his workers were being delayed, while his nation's power grids were going down in 17 provinces,
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While his proxy armies were being stripped of their weapons, the current Ayatollah, Sayyid al-Husseini Khomeini, allowed Google Play and WhatsApp to reappear on the monitors of desktop and laptop users.
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Alas, these apps have not yet been approved for phones.
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Why did the Ayatollah, the man who has the last word in Iran, approve of the Supreme Council allowing Google Play and WhatsApp back into his country?
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I suspect it was to listen to his people
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and to give them what they want for a simple purpose, to avoid the fate of Bashar al-Assad.
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Good observation, Howard.
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We'll see what happens.
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Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell has steered the world's most powerful central bank during a tumultuous period for the U.S.
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economy, from the pandemic to a historic bout of inflation shortly thereafter.
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But his job isn't finished yet.
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Inflation is now well below the 40-year highs of 2022.
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Investment analyst Mish Shedlock with us here.
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Mish, what's 25 going to look like for us?
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That's a good question, George.
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None of us know.
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In fact, the Fed doesn't know.
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First off, let me say a belated Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to the listening audience.
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Thank you for having me on all these weeks, all these years.
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Thank you.
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Back to the Fed, I don't know.
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They don't know.
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And one of the reasons why they don't know is – and one of the things that gets them in trouble is their forward guidance.
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You know, the QE to infinity got them in this housing mess that's still not straightened out.
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Then they kept saying inflation is transitory, it's transitory, it's transitory, it's transitory.
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Five months later, they finally figured out that it wasn't transitory.
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They claim to follow the data, but they don't follow the data.
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And now we have, what's Trump going to do next year?
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George, I don't know.
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He's threatened.
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25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
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I don't think he's going to do that.
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I don't think he can because we've got a trade treaty with them.
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But you don't know.
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And you don't know what he's going to do in Panama, although I think that's a bluff.
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You don't know what he's going to do with immigration policy.
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But here, I'm hopeful, George, because they've really toned down the rhetoric
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and Trump is looking to work out a deal with Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to deport the criminals, seal off the wall, put in a responsible immigration policy with the border shut off.
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I think that's the way to go, because if you deport 15 million people, as he threatened to do,
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you're going to have a huge labor shortage in the construction industry, in the hotel cleaning industry, in cooks and farms.
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So I'm encouraged, George, that he's backing off some of these extreme positions.
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But we don't know.
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It's a little bit wait and see.
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So here the Fed is in a position where they're giving forward guidance.
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But how is that possible?
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Because we don't know what Trump is going to do.
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193
982.084
985.627
And we don't know what the economy is going to do in response.
KVOW
2024-12-26T05:00:00
WY
SPEAKER_08
WY_KVOW_2024_12_26_05_00
194
986.427
990.39
So anyway, they're in a hard situation.
KVOW
2024-12-26T05:00:00
WY
SPEAKER_08