The next round of stimulus checks are coming, and with unemployment benefits ending, Patrick Gourley from the University of New Haven jumped on with Gary to break down the impact on the economy from both of these events.

While the snow from Winter Storm Abel was still falling all over Connecticut, Brad and Gary chatted with Bruce DePrest, who had been keeping an eye on the storm and on the air telling viewers about what to expect since 1am!

 PROFESSOR, ALLAN SAXE, University of Texas at Arlington Political Science Professor, will talk about: DEMS TAKE HOUSE PUSHING MASSIVE GOVERNMENT EXPANSION, TAXES, FREEBIES AS PARTY LURCHES LEFT : The growing socialist wing of the Democratic Party will flex its muscle with the seating of the new Congress, as more self-described Democratic Socialists join the ranks and dozens of sitting and incoming members – including likely 2020 hopefuls – embrace a massive government expansion that would make FDR look like a penny pincher. The party agenda is increasingly embracing big-government policies like “Medicare-for-all” and guaranteed jobs programs -- as well as an aggressive “Green New Deal” that would include all this and more as part of a fundamental overhaul to America’s economy and specifically its energy sector. It’s unclear when and if any of them will make it to the floor, let alone pass the House. But their growing support marks an astonishing rise for socialist-leaning policies in just a few years, and reflects a shift in the party itself and he spoke to Brad and Paul about this