Justin Wolfers

I think we just saw really, really good news.

The

I feel fairly confident and comfortable saying that, but I want to be clear, I will not normally see 172,000 and jump for joy.

I'll normally say, look for confirmation with a few more months.

And so one of the things that was so interesting is we're now at three very strong months in a row.

So I'm more impressed by the fact that over the past three months, we've averaged job growth around about that pace.

I think it's 188,000 a month.

For folks who are keeping score at home, that's the sort of – my mum's a very, very hard taskmaster.

But if I brought home jobs numbers like that, my mum would probably say, well done, Justin.

Good job.

And so I'd say that's the US economy.

Well done.

So I'm actually going to put out a piece tomorrow which dives into exactly that set of issues.

And I'm going to like relentlessly bore the hell out of my audience.

So let me instead be fun and entertaining for yours.

My favorite moment was, look, I like to read the data in the most honest way I can.

And so when you see good news, you say, you're beauty.

By the way, I got just an enormous amount of social media vitriol

Or it's completely clear that I've spent far too much time praising the president recently and people are upset at me.

But, you know, my attachments to the truth, not to a political narrative.