I'm Jim Kramer, and you're about to hear a sample taken directly from today's CBC Investing Club

morning meeting.

We did not have a show after the employment number came out, a couple of things that

I think are salient.

There was a, at 3-236,000, employment was the lowest number of monthly job additions since December of 2020.

A hourly wages were still up.

They're up.3.

And Jeff, you know that if we're supposed to have deflation, these numbers as soft as they were are not soft enough.

Right.

Waging, wage prices, wage growth still higher than expected. Some good

things, though. Labor force participation rate ticked up. That's good as well. Market interpretation

perhaps gives the Fed another cover to raise 25 basis points in May. But I know in your Sunday column last night, the excellent,

very thorough story that you put out every single Sunday that I know you work very hard on.

You raised the issue about commercial lending. Yeah. And how that by the banks, that fell 105 billion

in the last two weeks. So can they really raise rates still?

I don't think so.

One of the things when you have, this is one of the reasons I have such a problem with the federal

government's numbers.

If you talk to a retailer, you'll hear on the conference call, well, what was the cadence?

Meaning was the month of May, as going forward, what are you saying for May?

What did you have, what we were doing April and how about March and February?

So that you try to say, oh, I see it's turning.

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