going to continue to see improvement. >> would you say with what you're looking at that this is an economy now moving past the pandemic. >> yes, yes. absolutely. listen, i think covid is obviously still here. people are still calling out sick. as you were saying earlier, a lot of people resigned last year. it remains to be seen how many of them will come back and when. i don't think we are, you know, fully post-pandemic, but i would say certainly the worst is behind us and with the supply chains, for example, the worst is definitely behind us and we are just going to continue to make steady progress as we go forward. >> we've got to talk about inflation of course. i want to play for you how mark sandy of moody analytics put it this morning. >> i think that's really what's stinging people. the last time we saw inflation like this was 40 years ago. that's two generations ago. a lot of americans have never