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If you want to be on the program, I hope you got Blue Sky where you are.

It's pouring down right.

So I got my hot tub.

They showed up this morning.

Georgia Spa Company, they put it in.

It's a saltwater hot tub called an Envoy.

Got all these massagers and therapeutic massage. Started pouring down rain and I had to leave the poor guys. I almost was late to work this morning and trying to get to the office. When I did it out of my house, it was easy. I could have just walked inside, but now that I got an office, I had to get there and then I got stuck in the parking garage on a phone call, literally sat in my chair about five minutes ago. But I know what I'm going to talk about.

I've got news for you.

So there's this piece in the Guardian today.

Robert Reich.

We remember Robert Rice.

Robert Rice is a reliably progressive economist. He worked for Bill Clinton. He was the

economic advisor for Bill Clinton, reliably on the left, views the world from the left, and he just

can't figure out why people don't like this economy.

He writes this, it's a Goldilocks economy, not too hot to spur inflation, not too cool to invite recession.

On Friday, the Labor Department announced the U.S. economy had a 209,000 jobs.

It was the 30th consecutive month of job gains.

The unemployment rate dipped to 3.6%.

Last Thursday, we learned the U.S. economy, grew at an annualized 2% rate in the first quarter.

That's well above economist's expectations of 1.4%.

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