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Hey James, there's a big story this week about Biden and Putin to our virtual meeting.

It's Russian troops threaten Ukraine.

But I'll just send our listeners to one of our favorite guests, the New York Times, David

Sanger, who's written the authoritative account.

You can touch on that if you want, but to shift to back home, you are exuberant, rationally

exuberant about the economy.

Who couldn't be?

I mean, they keep revising these job numbers up.

One of the biggest years of job creation we ever had, four million people again in October,

just like September, quit their jobs.

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