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At what point do these company ceos hire more. to work around hiring new people. >> there is no question that for the last several years its been efficiency squeezing more out of less. i dont think that is going to change. at some point you cant squeeze. i think were starting to see that. i think the job numbers will continue to improve, no spring swoon for our economy, well probably see strong throughout the summer and i think this year could surprise as far as gdp growth. wont be a great year ...

15,000 caps. >> which you have on the ready. >> you reach a milestone. took us 6 years to get from 14,000 to 15,000. lots of new hikes. waiting for the spring swoon. we have seen it every spring for the past three years this year not happening. look at the major averages so far this year. they are all up pretty firmly. >> we have a quick look at the most highly trafficked airports in the country. >> these airports are considered the most crowded in america according to forbes. seattle tacoma com...

Rife with violence. for our part, dealing with the consumption side of narco terrorism has proved to be not particularly successful. we have our own problems with respect to the consumption side. the mexicans have to work harder in securing their terrain and securing our border as well. >> jared, if we can turn now to our economy because, you know, we just got jobs numbers yesterday, and lets take a look at the situation here at home, just this week we saw the dow and the s&p hit record highs. w...

Awhile and just admire how gorgeous it is? but no were going to mind your business this morning. wall street is waiting for only one thing today, it is the april jobs report. its just over two hours away now. and stock futures holding steady in anticipation. it is a report on the economy, your job, and your money. >> the expectation is right around 140,000 jobs created. the expectation is the unemployment rate to stay unchanged at about 7.6%. but christine romans is here with what could be a wil...

People out there. christine romans, a business guru, alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. you will continue to be with us from mexico. stephen moore from the wall street journal on the phone with us. jessica was mentioning this, the statement from the white house, bottom, it says in talking about the numbers. its important not to read too much into any one monthly report and informative to consider each report in the context of other data that will be coming available. what does the whit...

There. wholesale trade and employment, 29,000 jobs. professional and business services, 73,000 jobs. those tend to be the higher paid jobs. we want to continue to see those jobs increase. when you look overall at leisure and hospitality, 43,000 jobs created there. and also in health care, 19,000 jobs, that is a consistent performer for the economy. health care jobs every month. but, again, be careful about wages. there are a lot of health care jobs that pay $19,000 or $20,000 a year, home care a...

Bubble overall. look where the biggest home prices increases are, wolf in some parts of the country, up double digits. look at san francisco, up almost 19% year over year. las vegas, up more than 17%. phoenix, home prices, wolf, from february last year to february this year, up 23%. detroit, up 15%. atlanta, up about 16%. the slowest price increase, new york city, wolf, up about 1.9%. it didnt see the big run-up, didnt see the big crash, its not seeing the big recovery there. >> good point, chri...

Student loans. give them loans and make them easy. higher education its great for everybody and great, but the problem is kids, parents are borrowing money that there is no way they can pay the money back. >> gregg: nearly four years since the recession ended and economic growth is really pretty awful compared to what it should have been when you look at past recessions. we just got the new numbers out, 2.35%. it was supposed to be over 3%. projected by 3.5. second quarter, experts are expecting...

And services related to housing. this is a solid improvement. check out the fourth quarter. a slim increase, 0.4%. you want to see better growth than that. economists are telling us they dont expect the 2.5% rate of growth continue to the current quarter. such a big up tick, probably because of spending after hurricane sandy and cold weather in much of the country. wondering if there is a spring swoon in economic growth. we have to wait and see. stock futures holding steady. all three major aver...

Watched jobs report was discouraging, you called it the spring swoon. why were the numbers so low in was it the payroll tax? was it the sequester? was a combination of these things? what was it? >> doesnt seem like the sequester yet had much of an effect if you look at the changes in government pay rolls we dont know. the hope is that its just a blip urge the numbers are going to get revised away. but its very possible that this will be yet another spring in which some momentum that we had seen ...