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With is Bill Lee, one of the last things Vice Chairman Clarita said to me, please say hello to

Bill Lee, again with all his good academic work at

Columbia's public service to the IMF particularly in Hong Kong Bill Lee with us

on the comments of the vice chairman and the choice set forward.

Let me start right with the immediate on a Friday,

which is there will be a Friday soon, Dr. Lee,

where we get another jobs report in America.

Alan Ruskin and Deutschabbeck, really emphasizing in his note the importance

of this next print on a weaker labor economy.

How weak is the American labor economy? That's the key question and that's the one that I think Rich tried to dodge but hinted to

you that they were very concerned with because right now the weaknesses in the trade sector

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