and then, she met stephen moore. ♪ ♪ ♪ could she have found someone more different? southern california, killing at the beach. taking things easy. according to his friend, can graham. >> he never really held a job, but he was always working. always finding something to do. >> steven's mom l.a. fill-in says her son was not lazy, just laid back. >> he got by, but he wasn't truly motivated. >> but if stephen was serious about anything, it was skating. >> we would go skating on the beach. >> his friend, missy, skated to. but it's not like stephen. he took the bronze at the national speedskating competition. >> he would encourage me to skate fast. he would be way ahead of me. >> when he was not skating, he was happy to go wherever, whenever. like when his mother, evelyn, a travel agent, invited him to see the world. he was 30 something, free, and loved his mom. so why not? >> he was adventurous. >> here i am, on the right. >> what countries did you take him to? >> we did most of the asia. most of europe. south america. we have had a lot of interesting experiences, and hav

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heartbreak coming up, thank you stephen moore. good stuff.mmit seem to embrace artificial intelligence, apparently there is one big problem. >> is a double-edged sword, and i do great things like track if a country is reducing their fossil fuels or send alerts to people in the event of extreme weather but it consumes a lot of energy, there is one study an amount of electricity power a.i. systems worldwide in the year 2027 in the same amount of energy that argentina or the netherlands or sweden consumes in an entire year. the answer would be 100 terawatts hours a year. stuart: is like the energy required to produce that claim. >> same with artificial intelligence is technology. it consumes electricity a double-edged sword. >> these people are stupid or dishonest, either way i don't want anything to do with them to correct the world economy and started with a market economy. stuart: coming out for another example biden's weakness encouraging and emboldening our enemies, this time venezuela, that is my take top of the hour it's going to cost a l

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an economic, stephen moore wrote that, you and i know about this, we've been arguing about it, is probablyt essentially says the only way you can kill inflation is kill growth and you say that's not true, you can have higher growth and lower inflation, right? >> that's right and for example every month to do the jobs report and every time there is good news, inflation is coming. [laughter] the way the economy works. you and i are old enough to remember late 1970s when we had hyperinflation and high unemployment at the same time. david: armor the reversed when reagan came in when he was lowering about what the fed, he lowered inflation while growth was expanding enormous levels, right? >> that's exactly right. in the 80s combination of paul, hitting the fan at the time if ronald reagan did the regulation and the tax cuts which increased the supply of goods and services. the truth is, i look at the evidence of the last 50 years. if anything, the relationship between unemployment and inflation is positive, they tend to move in the same direction so where did the superstition food economics co

. >> let's bring in economist stephen moore. stephen, i almost thought you were going to do that. i al video.sts it sounds like you are putting all the numbers together for us. you know, it's so interesting, the middle, the middle class that goalposts is moving, isn't it? >> and young people are really feeling it. it is. >> you know, i have two minds about this, rachel. on the one hand. come on, these generation z folks, if you have a $74,000 income, you're richer than 95% of the people in the world. >> so this this is a great w country and we have a high living standard. a hiand young people shouldby appreciate that. and by the way, we all, when wee were younger we , you know, peat butter jelly sandwiches and you did that, right?, grow remember that? and so so come on, grow upp,,uy. guys. but on the other hand, the the flip side of this is that it is true that under biden, the cost of living has just haf. through the roo and let me give youe one concrete example. i mean, the pathwaconcre y towardsdream, the american dream, one of them is to own your own hom othem is well, guess w

instead accusing companies a price gouging economist stephen moore on that next. ♪ (adventurous music any market with a liquid etf. get in and out with dia. stuart: 12 minutes worth of business and we turn the market around the top 27, fractional gain for the s&p, the nasdaq 1025, the federal government hiring a near record number of workers. can we afford this? >> that's a really good question it does mean paying for more pension and salaries for years to come it was evident in the last jobs report 49000 jobs were hired by the government sector in november that ranked as the second largest sector for hiring in the november jobs report, over the past three months the government averaged hiring 59000 people per month, that is a lot of government jobs being added. the labor secretary tells me she is not concerned. >> if you look across the economy and across the numbers since president biden came into office we've seen broad-based recovery and broad-based growth across multiple industries. government employment reached 23 million workers that's near an all-time high for some economist h

we've got sean duffy, batya ungar-sargon and stephen moore. and as we love to do each christmas season, stuart is going to be here to read twas the night before christmas. it's a wonderful time of year with. it is friday, december 22 end. , 2023. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ santa calm down the chimney if about half past three -- ♪ left all these pretty presents that you see before me ♪ if. david: ah, john legend. merry, christmas, baby! and to all of you focus for tubing in, god bless you all a. thank you for being here. let's start this morning with the latest read on spending and inflation. lauren, come on in. of i saw you taking maria through the whole deal, take us through the personal consumptio- lauren: things are getting better, i think that's the bottom line. prices are starting to come down. goods, actual things that we buy and put under the christmas tree, i know it doesn't feel like it, sentiment is down, but prices for goods actually fell in november. by .7. it's confined but good denation is out there. services, infl

i was listening to stephen moore the other day. you hear all these numbers coming out of the white house about inflation. inflation, prices are up 20%. and if you are actually doing the shopping in your home, as i am, you know that that number is absolutely true when you go to the grocery store or, you know, put gas in the daughter. -- in the car. another number he gave was median value for a home, if you were paying $1800 a month for that, it's now $3800 a month. so these are major issues that americans are facing. there's a squabbling between the republicans, but the real thing is, is what is the biden administration doing to this country. pete: it feels really static right now. we've been through three debates, none of them feel like they produced any big outcome. maybe desantis down, hally up, a couple of people have dropped out, but it doesn't seem to have fundamentally altered the trajectory of the race. trump's right up here -- will: i think we can anticipate what comes out of iowa or shortly after iowa is what happens under

it's powerful forces of powerless.r it's those who have a lot of access to capital adnexa stephen mooresus those who are struggling to get by. unfortunately since money speaks much more loudly than we get to, and our political system, then we have now moved from a government of the people by the people and for the people and become a government of the corporations by the corporation for the corporations. whether it has to do with insurance companies whether it has to do with pharmaceutical companies which is why there are 18 million people in this country who cannot even afford to pay for the prescriptions the doctors given and 1.3 million people are rationing the incident. whether big food, white has to do with big oil, defense contractors, it is a matrix of corporate tyranny. this is tyranny. at this point that system given the undue economic influence of those corporate interests are at this point everything i describedhy to you is status qu, and that status quo will not disrupt itself. the only way to disrupt it is if we the people step in now. [applause] matrix of corporate tyranny

author jesse david fox music from stephen sanchez featuring the 8g band with brian frasier-moore. ♪ [ers and applause and now, seth meyers >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. we hope you're doing well. and now if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news president biden attended a campaign fundraiser today in boston titled "you've got a friend in joe," which featured a performance by james taylor. so if he wasn't sleepy joe before, he is now. [ laughter ] former president trump on sunday attacked actor robert de niro for criticizing him in a recent awards speech and said, quote, "very much like crooked joe biden, he can't put two sentences together." as opposed to trump, who is about to put four sentences together [ laughter and applause that's right trump attacked robert de niro for criticizing him in a recent awards speech, but he's just jealous because de niro's casino was successful [ laughter ] the republican national committee is set to hold the fourth presidential primary debate tomorrow, which will be hosted by cable channel news nation, the conse

stephen sanchez everybody! [ cheers and applause i want to thank brian frazier moore and the 8g band thanks for watching.e love you everybody. [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ >>> right now at 11:00, the line wrapped around the building. tonight a resolution calling for a cease fire in gaza prompting what some are calling the largest publish turnout in years at san francisco city hall. >> just this morning, i heard from a palestinian american friend. >> supervisor dean preston breaking down as he introduced the resolution. it was an emotional night. almost every member of the public who spoke was in favor of the cease fire proposal but criticism is coming in from some who didn't step up to the mic this evening. nbc bay area's terry mcsweeney has the story. >> reporter: more than a thousand people waited in and around san francisco city hall tonight for their chance to weigh in on supervisor dean preston's cease fire resolution. >> we are witnessing a mass taking of life. as a community, we are appalled that our tax dollars are funding it. >> the pain and anguish from today's speakers is overwhelming in this roo

stephen miller and katy, thank you, when we return, you won't believe what one san francisco liberal is now blaming the city's rampant home crisis on. we'll tell you about it. leo 2.0 terrell, steve moore, straight ahead. >> sean: it's no secret that homelessness in san francisco's way out of control but one of the city's supervisors now says that he knows the reasons why. capitalism. in a new documentary in the uk, dean preston is saying that his city's decline is the, quote, result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs. kind of a little rich considering that preston is actually one of the wealthiest members of the board of supervisors. so why doesn't he just simply lead by example? he can donate all of his money to homelessness. here with reaction, her age foundation economist, company founder of the committee to unleash prosperity, steve moore, and he's back, fox news contributor, leo 2.0 ter rely. it's your state leo. now you've proven in san francisco you do know how to clean up the streets of san francisco. all you need are regular visits from the president of china. it's not that hard. >> oh, it's not that hard at all because it can be do