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the bloomer what we're going to do right now is drive forward to the Friday jobs report.

And there's no one better to do that with.

And Louis Alexander, he is with Numera, and has an esteemed career in academics out of Yale, out of Stanford,

and also in market economics.

Lou, I know John and Lisa want to get to what we'll see Friday,

but I've got to give you a victory lap on an essay you wrote, I'm going to guess a decade

ago, maybe coming out of your public service under Secretary Geithner, where you talked about technology of the haves and the have-nots.

You absolutely nailed it then, Dr. Alexander, and now we've got the likes of Amazon borrowing at full faith and credit yields. Can

technology do you just visualize these technology giants just advancing over

the coming years and decades to ever bigger ever more dominant?

So I think one of the questions of the economy over the last 10 years has really been why

hasn't productivity growth and stronger given how important

and how pervasive tech has been.

Look we're going to a real-time experiment of what we can really do with

technology and I think we're going to be positively surprised so in many

ways I do think this is an opportunity for that I think the question really is

is the right industrial structure for that a small

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