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Okay, well, actually, we can begin this morning with some actual good news.

So the United States did add 1.4 million jobs in August.

That means that the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.4%, which was down like 1.8% because it was 10.2% in July. So that means

that we are looking at what looks like a V-shaped recovery. It is not in fact in a U-shaped recovery

or a W-shaped recovery. And as the economy continues to open, you're going to see more and more

job growth, which may be one of the reasons

why Democrats in many of these states are a little bit hesitant to open the economy. After all,

they can blame bad economic conditions on President Trump. If the economy starts to recover,

while that may alleviate a lot of the concerns about President Trump's presidency.

You see this with Joe Biden, who is constantly suggesting that schools are closed because

Trump botched COVID, net businesses are closed because Trump botched COVID. Well, what happens if New York and New Jersey reopened because it turns out that the virus is basically dead there? And then the economy starts to really boom again because it was booming up until the minute that COVID hit. Well, that would give Trump a pretty strong point going into the election. And you have to suspect that some of these Democratic governors know this, that they will be blamed politically if more people die from COVID, but they can always blame Trump if the economy continues to be slow because they are keeping the economy locked down. Now, the media are trying to downplay these numbers. They're trying to suggest that the numbers are disappointing. They are not, in fact, disappointing. The unemployment rate fell to 8.4% down from 14.7% in April and 10.000 in July. The drop, according to the New York Times, brings the rate below the peak of the last recession a decade ago when unemployment briefly hit 10%. Joblessness is still higher than the peak of many past recessions, of course. The figure for August job growth was buoyed by the hiring of close to 240,000 temporary workers for the 2020 census, most of whom will be laid off when the census canvassing ends later this month. Private sector payrolls, which were not affected by the census, rose by $1 million in August, down from $1.5 million in July. So it seems to be slowing a little bit, but that's again, because the reopening has been slowed. I mean, New York City still says that they're not going to open any of the restaurants, like pretty much ever, even though there are zero cases of death in Manhattan from COVID right now, which again suggests that this is far more political. A few podcasts ago, I went through all the unemployment stats and how it matches up with the

lockdown stats. Bottom line is this. The more you locked down your state, the worse your unemployment

numbers. So California has really bad unemployment numbers. New York has really bad unemployment

numbers. New Jersey has really bad unemployment numbers. Texas, not so much. Florida, not too much.

Arizona, not too much. And if you look in the Midwest, the unemployment numbers

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