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slash Ben. All righty. So the big story of the morning is that the unemployment rate

shockingly declined to 13.3%. There are a lot of people who are expecting, most of the economists

were expecting, in addition of some 7.5 million people to the

unemployment rules this month. Instead, it turns out that unemployment actually decreased by

2.5 million. Dow Jones experts, according to Daily Wire had predicted the rate would

sort to 19.5 percent with another 8 million jobs lost. The economists were not even close. The economy

actually created more than 2.5 million jobs in May, according to the Labor Department. The May gain was the biggest one-month jobs gained in American history since at least 1939. President Trump wrote on Twitter, it's a stunner by any stretch of the imagination. It's a stupendous number. It's joyous. Let's call it like it is. The market was right. It's stunning. Jobs returned to many sectors from retail sales to restaurants and bars to clothing stores to dentistry and medical practices. Jobs were lost in government and education due to ongoing school closures. Futures on the Dow stored more than 650 points on the good news. The unemployment rate increased by more than 10% in April, went all the way up to 14.7%. The March jobs report barely caught the initial surge in unemployment.

It was just then at 4.4%. There was some bad news on Thursday with the Labor Department stating

that 1.8 million Americans made first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week that pushed

the number of people who had lost their jobs amid the pandemic above 42 million. Weekly jobless

claims totaled 1.877 million. Dow Jones analysts had estimated a job loss of 1.775 million. So this is all bizarre. A lot of people who are still claiming unemployment, but a lot of jobs were added to the economy because it turns out that people are not into being locked up and losing their jobs forever. And a lot of the people who are on unemployment have technically been sort of furloughed, right? A lot of them went to their employers and they said, if you could just kind of lay me off so that I am eligible to make more money off unemployment than I am working for you right now since I'm furloughed, that would be great. But those people are going to get their jobs back. The economy is expected to begin recovering during the second half of 2020, the CBO's May report had said, the labor market is projected to materially improve after the third quarter, but obviously this was happening earlier. Right. So bottom line is that people want to get back to work. People are getting back to work. And that is amazing. That is really good news. This led Paul Krugman, the expert over at the New York Times, because the experts

are always right. This is the thing that we have learned over the past several months, is you must listen to data, you must listen to the experts, you must listen to the science. Now, somebody who is kind of fond of listening to data and science, I have been noting all long that the data and science have not been backing a lot of the positions taken by the so-called experts. But it is amusing to watch as Paul Krugman becomes an employment

truther. He tweeted out this morning, this being the Trump era, you can't completely discount the possibility. They've gotten to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They've gotten to them. President Trump went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and he said, it's going to be your unemployment numbers or your brains on this piece of paper. But it's much more likely, says Paul Krugman, that the models used to produce these numbers have gone haywire in a time of pandemic. He says these numbers should make you more, not less pessimistic, about the economic outlook. Why? Because they'll reinforce the White House inclination to do nothing and let emergency aid expire. Unbelievable. So you get it. So you were wrong. like the swing there from 7.5 million jobs lost you 2.5 million jobs gain. You were off by 10 million jobs in that swing. And your initial response is, this is very bad because it means that there won't be as much stimulus as we need. Or you're just wrong about like all the things, Paul Krogman. And you have been wrong for years.

This is the same guy who suggested the internet would not change the way we did business.

It would be like the fax machine.

Right. Genius, Paul Krogman. The guy, the guy's just incredible at what he does. So that is very good news. People have been saying on the right, is it possible that Trump can still win, given everything that's going on, given the fact that he's trailing Joe Biden heavily,

given the fact that he's trailing in a lot of the swing states. The answer is if the economy

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