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are concerned your voice is not being heard in washington is aei small business owner a group like nfibyou your voice inn■] >> it is been several years since the pandemic, or small busi i u.s.? what's two biggest issues with the monthly survey we've been trackingki for decades are inflation access to qualified inflation as we all know as consumers earn is been a real problem. anything to hp be welcome from small business owners axis qualified workforcee reasons inflation has been so difficult to dealh it's hard to get good workers and conjugal increase her wages and benefits which again was been a real difficult cycle were dealing with■0. cross you put up of the call thw ti there's a lot that goes into it i understand. but in general how optimistic or small business owners? >> right now the■x below historic averages. little below average. there's a go into that the economy is fairly strong when you measure in terms of the unemploymentate. there are issues with corporate workforce the regulatory environment has a little bit to do witheople understand low unemployment rate the business is

this reminds me a little bit of what we saw from the left as we were approaching the decision date in nfibe. there was a massive intimidation campaign waged by the left directed at chief justice john roberts. now, many belief that chief justice john roberts was going to vote one way and ended up voting another way. perhaps they think they can do the same to justice alito or other members of the court but definitely they are trying with alito to get him to recuse. get him to take himself out of certain cases important to the left. because they fear that justice alito is not going to embrace their bad arguments. so, look. this is not a good way to win litigation. not an honorable way to win litigation. more importantly, steve, it's not going to work. justice alito is a man of honor and integrity and not going to back down because of intimidation also she recorded mr. alito's wife and he confirmed that his wife likes to fly flags and that's what that was all about. you mentioned chief justice john roberts. he actually pushed back at her and said this about the united states being a christian

constitutionally unsound rulings, like griswold versus connecticut, kilo versus city of new london and nfib bypass our system of checks and balances. >> well, senator blackburn is up for re-election this year and one democrat vying for the chance to take her on is state representative gloria johnson. you'll remember ms. johnson as one of the tennessee three, last year she joined justin pearson and justin jones to protest on the tennessee house floor, for gun safety, following the covenant school shooting. johnson was the only one of the three to narrowly escape expulsion by the republican dominated state house. tennessee hasn't had a democrat senator in nearly three decades. it's a long-shot bid. she is hoping by centering her bid on gun reform and abortion, she can flip the ruby red seat blue. good to see you, representative johnson. it's been too long. give me your strategy here because it is a long shot bid. tennessee is a very red state. how can you compete with marsha blackburn? is it her just her quotes like that one about griswold? >> yeah. she is really helping us out here. marsha b

and we had a nice nfib small business index today, a pretty solid ten-year treasury option. there have been encouraging signs. the data has been encouraging, even just today alone, and this is after a few days of flat movement in the s&p. not necessarily pullbacks, but a pause in that upward trend, which is nain anticipation of a of this data. and we get p prk i this week. it's a really big week, and listening to what jerome powell is going to say tomorrow, obviously nobody is going to expect a rise in rates. >> it's interesting. what i expected to be a more significant period of time has been a little less so, because we don't expect a move tomorrow or a move in skbrul and we don't get one in september. does that change the calculus of how the markets might react to what happens tomorrow, no matter what the fed chair says, my point is, we'll have other economic reads on inflation and just about everything else, way before we think there might be a cut anyway. >> and the way i understand it, obviously, we know the fed meeting started today. we get the statement tomorrow. the

. >> well, on a sequential -- we know nfib has been historically negative about everything. >> that's roll over yesterday. >> nvidia is up. isn't that all you need. nvidia is up, jim. >> ah. >> your dutch bros jim, the secondary. >> the secondary. these guys want to get out of this dog so much, it's actually a great stock. you see there's a convert -- >> i missed that one. >> a huge number of shares coming at you. this is just terrible. 8.6 million. >> investor day today. >> that's a winner nextera. constellation energy, number one stock. that's all data center. >> i know we mentioned gamestop right before the open. do we know where they are in terms of selling those 75 million shares, as that continues -- >> no. it's a mystery. >> i guess i could try and find out. >> if you can find out, that would be great. >> how would you find out? >> make phone calls, something i've done through the years. >> probably keep your job -- >> can be an effective way to find things out. >> a good job when they come for you, the machines. >> might allow me to keep my job. might. >> i'll talk to jensen,

. >> small business optimism hitting highest level of the year according to the latest nfib survey releasedust moments ago. despite the rise, uncertainty is rising to the highest level since november of 2020. you can choose your own adventure there a little bit from that he'll possess. joe? >> a panel of independent advisers to the fda as usual -- fda panel recommended eli lilly's drug paving the way for the treatment to receive approval in the u.s. later this year. the fda typically follows the recommendations 6 its advisory panel. it isn't required to do so. if cleared for use, this would be the second alzheimer's drug of its kind currently on the u.s. market after another one was released. we will talk about about that with a specialist later this hour that was actually involved in the approval who points out it's going to be kind of a long trek' it's going to be combination therapy' not something that necessarily attacks the underlying causes but it can appear to put alzheimer's in to a kind remission where there is no -- but just getting rid of that, we still don't know whether -- we s

nfib polls show optimism is at levels last seen in 2012, 2013.in new york roughly 23%. california 20%. florida over 30%, and think is on top of the 15% to 20% increase in inflation over the last three years. unfortunate, but not very surprising. as for what the fed's going to do, several times in the past few months powell said unexpectedly this labor could continue disinflation prompt a rate cut. continuing to see rising initial claims. put that in context of the establishment and household reports we'll get later this month. we could see a cut on the basis of weakening employment later this summer. absent what happens in disinflation. >> brandon, what's your initial take on all of this? >> i disagree. i don't think there's that much to see here. this data is hard to read. the most basic test, do we have more ui claims this year compared to last, initial claims. 238,000 this week. had 261,000 last year. actually went down. i think that tells us what we need to know. saw jobless claims rise over the same period last year. really just residuals se