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Douglas, i'm talking about economists predicting the growth of the economy, they lowered that growth when we saw omicron hit the situates along with build back better being stalled. is this a burst to our economic bubble as we look ahead to 2022. >> i think that's too strong. the economy is in very good shape as we approached the arrival of the new variant we had growth that was probably the range of 6% or 7% in the fourth quarter of 2021. that's extremely fast. we saw it in red hot labor markets with we had double digit rises in employees payroll, wage increases, number of people hired. thing...

Welcome back, everybody. it is the last day of the year, if you didn't know it, thank god, and it was a big one for our economic recovery. but it has been a bumpy ride and the road ahead to be pretty bumpy as well. the good news is supply chain issues are getting a lot better than what we saw back in the fall, but inflation it is still red hot, price jumping at the fastest rate in lee decades, hitting your wallet which i'm sure you know big time. a big part of that is the great resignation, millions of workers quitting their jobs and we are still feeling the ripple effects today, right now the...

Obviously, but if you look at polling, right, if you talk to folks, they are not necessarily convinced. that's because they're going to the grocery stores, right, they're going shopping, and they're still finding their meat, their milk, their cheese costs a heck of a lot more than it did last year. what is the relief in sight for inflation, douglas? >> i think there are a couple of things. number one, one of the wild cards in the next year will be how many people will return to seeking work. we lost about 2.5 million women, for example, who have simply not come back into the labor force. if th...

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