Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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But first... Yesterday, for the seventh straight week, a record number of Americans filed for unemployment.

More than 33 million people have now applied for benefits since mid-March, totaling a fifth of the workforce.

From coast to coast tonight, the faces of a deeply personal unemployment crisis.

All right, the breaking news, a record shattering.

6.6 million Americans filed by us.

20,000 jobs were lost in the month of April.

All the bills are coming and they're calling me and I have no money to pay for that. But if you looked at the stock market, you could be forgiven for wondering if investors have just missed the news.

If you take a look at the month of April, the Dow and the S&P are looking at their best month since 1987.

Today's gains make it official. The NASDAQ is pretty much flat on the year. So kudos to the market and people that still believe in it.

It's a long way from March when America's markets dropped by a third.

The stock markets in the US is actually higher than it was in August last year,

which really if you take a step back is incredible because it seems to suggest that the pandemic

and really the most severe economic slump in modern history, it appears to suggest none of

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