So from last night we were speaking you were talking about how normally you come here the lift

takes a while to pick you up but you're noticing a little bit of a difference what is that?

I'm noticing a huge difference.

I'm noticing a lot more lift and Uber drivers are out on the roads.

The wait time has been severely decreased.

We finally got numbers from the government this morning that show the end of

unemployment assistance, the end of the extended benefits.

We finally got to see what that pike, you know,

pick through the python looks like with most of Americans back at work.

And lo and behold behold we're seeing lower

spending among people who have lost their unemployment benefits. What a shock. But my

point is it's time for people to go back to work and I think some people are going to go back to work but there's a conundrum in this morning's data.

We've had three weeks, three consecutive weeks of rising initial US jobless claims.

What's going on?

Three weeks in a row.

When's the last time you saw that?

March, excuse me, April 2020.

Last time we saw that was April 2020, which is COVID first month.

Which makes sense. but that was because

shutdown stay home all that stuff now tell me when you saw that pre April

20 20 oh well I mean they bumped around a lot but three weeks but But they were, they were at the lowest level in 50 years prior to the pandemic.

And then they spiked up.

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