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Father and nephew that were killed. and you know, everybody wants to know how we're doing. and to varying degrees, we're muddling through. no one thinks they will have funerals to plan. no one thinks this will happen to your family. i know that my dad would have given anything if it could have just been him. that makes it so much harder.
We seem to be catching a cold now when they are sneezing too. >> sam stein? >> john, i'm wondering to what extent domestic politics has played a role in this. the fed tape ring, sort of a weak jobs report from the last month. a little bit of not contraction but we have seen unemployment insurance expire. are investors looking at that and wondering if we have our own house in order? >> investors are certainly obsessing about the fed. they have been for a few years now. i kind of doubt that is a big part of what is going on right now. because, you know, if you look at the markets, the fed is -- ...
Science -- i feel like i'm back in american politics 101. >> come on back. >> muddling through, yes, here we go. >> muddling through. i think we'll see much more executive and administrative action this year than we will congressional action. and the context of a congress on pace to be the least productive in history. the second factor is also the republican party strategy has been in action, don't do anything, say government is broken and doesn't work, and go out and run on that in the next election. so i think that's a strategy. the other factor that they can't plan on is disruptive social m...
Of great powers from ancient rome to modern america." rana foroohar is cnn's global economic analyst. ed luce and zachary karabell writes the edgy optimist column for reuters and the atlantic. all right, zach, tell me, is this a story of kind of american resilience and bounce-back? >> first of all, it's a story of an economy that is essentially muddling through. in a world that four years ago thought that it was going to implode, muddling through and having the space to think about future problems is not a bad thing. it's not the economy that americans dreamed should be their economy. it's not...
There's one trader that i talked to said it's really not about this dow record these days. what's more significant than the dow hitting a record high almost every day is what these job numbers show. and what he told me is this is the first time in a while that we've seen this consistent data come out on jobs and come out of washington at the same time, meaning the preview report that we've gotten on jobs on wednesday and thursday, they actually match up with today's report. and the way this trader puts it, he sees this as a sign of real progress, unlike this disconnect that we've been talking ...