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maria: brian brenberg is here this morning. , brian. >> i've been eager about the consumer especially hearing about kohl's, we have been talking about demand destruction, you are seeing maybe more inflation on the services side. are you worried about the consumer faltering here and that leading into recession in the the second half of the year? >> no, i'm not, but this is sort of a tough question because most people believe the consumer drives economic activity and i fundamentally do not. i believe production drives activity and i've never seen the american consumer need to be told to consume. as long as they have room on the credit card, they seem to love consuming and i do understand on the margin that that there can be demand destruction and even on the margin, we see demand alteration and not destruction, this sort of changes in consumer behavior. it could get to the point, brian, where the consumer does back down but really wages and employment is strong enough. that's not what i see the problem. i'm more concerned about th

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he with me now, we checked him in as fox news contributor, professor of business in manhattan, brian brenberglcome back. >> hey, kennedy. kennedy: this is the new talking points from the administration in terms of the economy, we just have to transition to steady growth, the president has given us record growth, it's been so amazing but we can't continue that for years so we will just have to go stable and steady. i don't buy that and i don't trust them and i don't know that i trust jerome powell with summing up the economy appropriately especially when he was so wrong about transitory inflation. >> this is not a new message, transition is from the same root as transitory. we've been hearing this word for the better part of the year end it's wrong, wrong. the fact that the white house is still trotting out that language just tells me they actually don't even care to understand was going on in the economy right now. we are going to shrink in the first quarter of this year, we are 1 foot in the whole of recession and the projections are for us to grow at 0% this quarter which means any little t

compagno with my cohosts kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner and also joining us morgan ortagus and brian brenbergters into the nation nations most liberal cities are poised to send stinging message on soft on crime policies that may have far-reaching implications for democrats and president. in california voters are deciding whether to recall san francisco's far left district attorney and his counterpart in los angeles, george gascon who could face a recall himself is now defending the shockingly light sentence levied here. a hit-and-run driver admitted to mowing down her mother and her infant. he just got five months probation at a juvenile detention camp. meantime there has been yet another random attack on the new york city subways. video capturing this horrifying moment as a man violently pushed a woman onto the tracks in broad daylight. thankfully no train was approaching and bystanders got the woman back on the platform. is he generic to these democratic mayor eric adams is finally reading the political tea leaves as he lashed out at a criminal justice system yesterday that keeps putting da

compagno with my cohosts kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner and also joining us morgan ortagus and brian brenberge poised to send stinging message on soft on crime policies that may have far-reaching implications for de

let's bring in brian brenberg, he's with us now. th, do you see inflation at the 8% level where it is now, 8% level all the way through the summer? >> stuart, i think it's going to be the higher than that in the key99 categories that really hit a lot of americans. when you're talking about the fuel prices, when you're talking about food. stuart, we're still not talking about the how much inflation is yet to come many that area. that's really going to nail families. that overall number could come down a little bit if the fed really gets aggressive raising rates, but that doesn't matter so much when these key areas are going through the roof. you could get that divergence between the core inflation and the headline inflation number, and that's what worries me, stuart, the headline inflation. because right now that's the number that matters to american families. and i don't think on food or fuel things are going to get better anytime soon, and the president is wrong that he can't do anything. he is dodging this issue. he could have been

. >> sandra: charlie gasparino joining us, and brian brenberg is here, economic professor at the kingsnhattan. charlie, i know you talk with the wall streeters, and gene sperling talked to john over the weekend, he's from the white house, adviser to the president, president biden put out a blueprint for fixing this economy and this inflation problem in the wall street journal last week. gene says i'm not in the forecasting business, and we asked him based on this economic plan how much lower could gas prices be a couple months from now, by end of year, not in the forecasting business. you know who is, wall street. goldman sachs is now forecasting, the economists, that oil prices will surge to $140 a barrel this summer. they say consumers will feel as oil is 160 a barrel, means gasoline and fuel prices are rising more than would normally be expected. guess what that means. much higher gas prices and by the way, nat gas prices soaring as well. >> listen, we have inflation across the board that's up. we have pretty much economic mismanagement inside the white house. the interesting thing

carol roth joins us, former investment banker, brian brenberg, economics professor, fox news contributors has me concerned not only because now i can't bring good keys from home if there are none in the theater -- goodies -- but i'm also seeing people packing the theater regardless. and that has got to be a sign of something going on, that americans willing and able to endure the tragedy of no popcorn just to get out. [laughter] so that's got to be a good reflection on something, what do you think? >> i love seeing people go to the theater. i guess maverick's a great movie. i haven't seen it myself, i want to see it. it's free of the anti-woke ambush stuff that you get in a lot of movies these days. but the thing is you go to the movie, you should expect to be able to get popcorn, right? that's kind of basic. you go to a ball game, you get a hot dog, you go to a movie and get popcorn. it's like a big check engine light on the economy. it's just saying this economy is not working. we cannot accelerate. even when people want to two to the theater, even when they want to spend money, they'r

brian brenberg is here. >> what?e was doing that wisper voice again did you notice going down into the wisper voice? nobody is listening to him at all on this , because it's so obvious. all these same oil companies who apparently can't get it together now, boy they could get it together under president trump couldn't they because we had oil & gas flowing everywhere but biden, it's not him. it must be the oil companies and their greed, which they just discovered now. stuart: astonishing to me he's making that argument at this point. nobody believes that argument. i mean, its been, to take it to the cleaners that particular argument. >> yeah, and it's like he doesn't care about his credibility at this point and maybe he doesn't. maybe the project is high gas prices, and he actually just doesn't care what happens to his credibility. that's the only way you can explain what he keeps doing with this. stuart: one of these days he will be interviewed by a journalist who knows what he's talking about to give valid questions