Brian Stewart

It's now sitting at 4.4%, which is fine.

You know, it's well in the fine range, but the direction that that's taking, like, is it going to drift lower again?

Or we've been getting anecdotal news of layoffs and things like that.

Amazon, you know, the one that I mentioned earlier.

So see how much of that is sort of playing a part in the overall economy.

I have to admit that the economic situation is hard to parse.

It seems real cloudy to me.

Yeah, 100%.

There's a lot of articles, like if you just scroll, you know, you see headlines of like, why does the economy feel so bad if it's not so bad kind of angles on it.

I think there is sort of a feeling of because a lot of the harshness in the economy now is on the inflation front, you know, prices are still rising higher than the Fed target.

I mean, it's down from where it was, but we're still seeing higher prices.

And obviously, the higher prices that came into effect over the past

few years are still there.

You know, I mean, you get sticker shock just going to McDonald's.

Um, and I think people live that day to day.

Right.

Um, and so I think it's just sort of like, it's like walking through a hail storm.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's like little things on you, like every step you take.

Uh, and I think, so I think that makes consumers feel the economy more constantly.