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uh... jason that perhaps the dumbest question i got

uh... this week was from me right and i would i would never say it came from a tall bow-tide man.

Do you think the White House will celebrate the news on household median income?

We were pretty happy to see the report and happy to see what it meant for all Americans

and I should say I'm really happy to be on your show because we just heard you

you know every other minutes you talk about what happens in the stock market every other minute

you talk about what's happening on treasury yields it's only once a year that we get a really

comprehensive picture about how Americans are doing in the economy,

what their incomes are, what poverty is, what health insurance is.

Those are ultimately the most important things in the economy.

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