say they're unable to trade because they can't afford generate is a little early i spoke with chris yellen, who's an energy analyst and managing director of e business intelligence. he says, the government's government must find a better way of dealing with an old power infrastructure in 2007 in 2008. a major new build of power stations was announced some 9600 megawatts from 2 massive coal fired power stations. and these were intended to be completed 520142015 respectively. the reality, however, has been very different. these 2 power stations have been running very light, and the one power station is essentially complete, except one of its generators has exploded in hydrogen explosion and taking off about one 6th of that power station. the 2nd to power station is only one out of the 6 generators is operating. so if you look at these 2 pass stations, they are delivering only half of the intended $9600.00 megawatts output. and they are running something like a light from the expected completion date. so we are missing a, just from that project alone, $4800.00 megawatts, which is equivalent t

chris retail sales, consumer spending in this report, it was down year-over-year. janet yellenchair, also our current treasury secretary in south africa on friday had this to say about her worries about the economy and the recession. >> i don't want to minimize the risk of recession in the absence of further shocks, it really comes down to the labor market. i guess the path that i see to maintaining a strong labor market and getting inflation down does involve a slowdown in growth. >> 25 basis points, it looks like it is a lot closer to being baked in the cake. the question will be after the fed policy decision, after the tightly worded policy statement, what does jay powell say about what happens next? will you continue to 25 basis point hikes? are you going to pause? are you less worried about inflation? whatever he signals there, it will be very important to the market. they are pricing in cuts in the second half of the year. jay powell says they will keep the key rate at a high level. that will be a big issue on wednesday as well. >> as japan prepares to announce the replac