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In december. that beat out estimates. maybe job numbers are contributing to america's spending mood. we can celebrate the robust increase in payrolls over the past year. 4.26% payroll growth since january. trump inherited the longest payroll expansion in modern times and he hit 1.37% for his first year in office. in fairness, biden did inherit a poorly performing covid economy from trump. so many of his numbers are going to look very strong initially. coming up, trump has gone almost a year. yet democracy is still in peril. some argue it may be in worse shape than while he was in office. we ...

15% of total retail sales. a record. and president trump is tweeting about all of this saying "2019 holiday retail sales were up 3.. the biggest number in u.s. history, congratulations." mastercard says that he is actually wrong, but the biggest rise was still under president trump's 5.1%. fox news headlines, we have seen a lot of the economic headlines. >> carley: i am always in a spending mood, so congratulations to all of us and i may have been a big participant. i also learned that today is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, because people are still on vacation. they can be retu...

Strong winds sent the stage crashing into fans just before a sugarland concert. google's stock closed higher after the tech giant announced layoffs at motorolla mobility. the cell phone company it just bought. 4,000 jobs are going to be cut. 20% of the work force. most of the jobs being cut are outside of the united states. google also said it will close or consolidate about 1/3 of its 90 locations. we are talking about 30 locations probably consolidated. a major trend for american credit card customers. a new report this morning shows the number of credit card customers paying their bills...

Google's stock closed higher after the tech giant announced layoffs at motorolla mobility. the cell phone company it just bought. 4,000 jobs are going to be cut. 20% of the work force. most of the jobs being cut are outside of the united states. google also said it willlose or consolidate about 1/3 of its 90 locations. we are talking about 30 locations probably consolidated. a major trend for american credit card customers. a new report this morning shows the number of credit card customers paying their bills late now at an 18-year low. the amount of debt per customer is up, about 6% over th...

Spending associated with that, happened in march. so people are getting back in the spending mood. >> and there was concern, wasn't there, that after this dramatic great recession as we're now calling it, people would be very reluctant, that they wanted to save, which on the one hand is good for individual families but bad for the economy if people close their pocketbooks. >> that's right. it does look like people are being a little more wary, especially of debt. we're seeing credit card debt numbers coming in lower so, that is a good thing for people and also for the economy in the long run s...