mario parker a bloomberg. thank you, sir. tom: you know what his record was last year? went to 14 consecutive days of parties. that is how washington works. jonathan: that's how he got the promotion. [laughter] we are going to we doing this again and again. tom: do you want the factoid of the day? jonathan: give it to me. tom: we get tons of research. peter writes wonderfully acute notes. he said used cars, the manheim used vehicle index, has gone up to a new high. it went up and it rolled over. it has gone back up to a new high, up 27% year-over-year. i think it is the status of the day because everybody out there, the transitory crew is like, it is all going to roll over and go away. is it? jonathan: day by day, you seem to be getting more and more annoyed by the transitory crew. tom: remember v-shaped? jonathan: i remember v-shaped. do you remember when it was february 2020, and v-shaped was just china will recover quickly, and then v-shaped turned into something else? lisa: if you look at car prices, energy prices, this is why people are using the s word, stagflation

i want to bring in mario parker. what are we expecting president biden to do? president biden is taking his pitch to the american people to ask for help to pressure some sort of bipartisanship in washington between the parties who are engaged in a very dangerous game of chicken. guy: in terms of the data we have on the agenda, we are trying to figure out which is the one we need to be focusing on. halloween seems to be emerging as a key line in the sand. give us the schedule we are working with. mario: i think the safe pick is halloween for a deadline. prospects for a default range anywhere between october 18, give a weaker two or so in terms of projections, that is when the u.s. would hit that. halloween is now the big date. however, chuck schumer is out with a letter to his colleagues saying the essence. be prepared to work throughout this weekend to get some things to the president's desk. guy: we heard -- alix: we heard senator mitch mcconnell told president joe biden that he should pressure the democratic leaders to raise the debt ceiling limit because the