Hey everyone, salty language ahead, but we're talking about the economy, so you know.

Jordan, can you choose an emoji for the economy right now?

Uh, the head exploding emoji, I think. I was gonna go with Lollsob.

No, I think the brain exploding.

The emoji is why? Um, because everyone's brain is kind of breaking as we're trying to figure out

what exactly is going on during this reopening process, which is, uh, economically it's a

becaotic right now. This chaos Jordan's talking about is mostly in the minds of people like him,

analysts whose job it is to issue some kind of judgment about the way money moves in this country.

They've got all kinds of metrics to measure the economy's growth, take the consumer price index.

It currently shows costs rising. The average price of a new car above $25,000. We've never seen that before.

Air fares, those are also going up. Just in there's the monthly jobs report.

The desk, we're gonna bring in the numbers right now.

And the answer is a giant miss, right?

It's only 266,000 jobs added in the period, which is a real disappointment for April.

You had economists looking for more like a million.

One thing you would expect to see is that as the vaccination rate rises, more people will go back to work,

right? You would see the jobs recovery kind of speed up.

Is that what we're seeing? Not really.

And so it's, at least as far as you can kind of tell from eyeball in the data.

You and I see when I look at how the numbers are being talked about generally,

I see so much impatience. And I just think it's really interesting, because I think there's an impatience

on all levels in our lives right now, and impatience to take our masks off, and impatience to

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