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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 aides. there are other health care jobs that pay six figures on hospital doctors, and very highly ski...

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 didn't see the big run-up, didn't see the big crash, it's not seeing the big recovery there. >> good point, christine. housing bubble caused the big of the recession, we've seen in half a century. the question...

Student loans. give them loans and make them easy. higher education it's 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 an abysmal 1%. >> the economic impact of the budget cuts, sequester, income taxes and payroll taxe...

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 don't 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 averages lower. dow off 41 points, futures trading, but the market posting solid gains for the week. do...

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? >> doesn't seem like the sequester yet had much of an effect if you look at the changes in government pay rolls we don't know. the hope is that it's just a blip urge the numbers are going to get revised away. but it's very possible that this will be yet another spring in which some momentum that we had seen at the beginning of the year seems to dissipate. >> what's with the spring? >> i don't know, to ...