This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast.

Uh, let's get to it.

You know, I... if you don't know, I like to start these things with humor and goofiness,

you know, or at least something optimistic.

And we've got a really good episode here. We're going to be talking later

on in the show with Jane S Hoffman, former Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for

New York City, about her powerful and somewhat scary book, Your Data, Their Billions, unraveling and simplifying Big Tech.

It's all about how the Big Five Tech companies know more about you than Your Closest Friends

and Loved Ones do. Your closest friends and

loved ones don't know as much about your buying habits or your porn habits or your

YouTube habits as these faceless algorithms do. Really happy to have her. I promise it'll be fun.

We're also a few days into this unholy experiment of doing our podcast six days a week and

you know I want to begin this by by doing a big monologue about how the economy is actually doing pretty well by the conventional standards we've all agreed on.

I mean, Biden, this administration in a little over a year,

has overseen the creation of four times

as many jobs as Donald Trump and George W Bush

and George H.W. Bush combined.

How those three Republican presidents all blew up the

deficit in their own special way, Reagan as well.

But Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have been three Democrats in a row who have lowered

the deficit.

Bill Clinton, for all his problems, actually had a surplus.

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