Monica Ricks

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16,695 appearances 557 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 13 Sep

Monica Ricks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Bloomberg News Now · US Envoys Arrive in Russia, Trump Downplays Iran Conflict, More · 5 Sep 2026 podcast

He's called for a ceasefire to air attacks during that visit. voice-verified

Meantime, President Trump has downplayed the war with Iran when asked about the Vice President's comments earlier this week, saying he didn't consider the conflict to be a war. voice-verified

Trump agreed, calling it small potatoes. voice-verified

The war has cost the US more than thirty seven billion dollars since it started six months ago, and eighteen service members have died. voice-verified

Energy prices have also soared. voice-verified

Nationwide gas prices are now four hundred eighteen a gallon, and diesel just hit an all-time high at five eighty eight a gallon, according to Triple A. voice-verified

Brent crude closed at ninety-six dollars a barrel on Friday, but Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says oil prices could go as low as a voice-verified

As forty dollars a barrel and lead to lower interest rates and inflation once this conflict is over. voice-verified

Friday's job report came in stronger than expected with employers adding one hundred sixty two thousand jobs in August. voice-verified

Nicole Bakad is a labor economist at ZipRecruiter. voice-verified

Nicole Bacad says it's also a tough job market for young people looking for their first job. voice-verified

But heading into Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration may be considering the first changes to child labor rules in decades. voice-verified

Hoping to lower record high beef prices ahead of November elections, President Trump says he's giving U.S. voice-verified

farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food, which means slaughtering their own animals, bypassing big meat packers like Tyson and JBS. voice-verified

He'll also require country of origin labels on imported beef. voice-verified

This of course comes as food prices around the world hit their highest in years. voice-verified

Here's Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. voice-verified

President Trump's executive order limiting mail in voting just hit another roadblock. voice-verified

We get more on that from Bloomberg's Ed Coleggi. voice-verified

An ICE agent has been released from federal custody after a hearing in Texas for lying to federal investigators about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota. voice-verified

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