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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Chris Hilton.

I'm joined by Motley Fool, Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Ron Grossguys.

Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween to you, Chris.

Coming up, we'll give you the latest on Microsoft, Motorola, Sony, and more.

CNBC's John Harwood will give us his thoughts on how next week's midterm elections will affect Wall Street,

plus we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with the big macro. On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew

at an annual rate of 2% in the third quarter, which was in line with expectations.

On Thursday, the government announced that unemployment claims dropped to their second lowest level of the year,

but Seth Jason, Reuters and the University of Michigan reigned on the parade on Friday

when they reported that consumer sentiment fell in October.

What was your headline of the week?

Wow. Well, there's a lot there. Let's just go through and point out that most of those things you just said don't really matter.

Or our prone to change a few weeks from now when they re-estimate what unemployment claims might be,

and also at a few weeks when they redo GDP.

You don't want to take a gratuitous shot at the University of Michigan?

That number is always crazy. Sometimes the confidence is low and people go out the next month and spend like crazy.

What is going on here, it seems to be going on, is you shouldn't get too excited about that unemployment claims drop

because 434,000 big deal, the usual is about 450,000 that any number of errors could be responsible for that.

So whoopee. GDP numbers actually a little bit lighter than the 2.1% that I read economists were looking for.

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