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Better but luke, i think in general as long as the economy increase, economic activity and growth increases and the deficit decreases the more those two things happen obama's hand i think is strengthened in these potential negotiations because he's got a better economy, he's got fewer angry americans, fewer out of work americans, and the deficit becomes less and less salient an issue, so he can talk a little bit more on his terms, and his terms should mean as many economists, as almost every economist would say his terms should mean more public investment, more stimulus. >> one thing that coul...

Fed as impacting the destination to a good outcome and it is not in control of the destination, that needs help from washington and the rest of the world. >> austan goolsbee, washington is something that the federal reserve chief announced this week or mentioned this week. the fed chief planned to keep dumping money into the market, $85 billion a month and ben bernanke blaming slow growth on washington. what is holding things back here? >> the main thing that's holding things back is we're recovering from a savage financial crisis based recession, and so the normal mechanisms of v-shaped recov...

For april pretty good, 165,000 jobs, but the revisions to february and march were also positive adding 114,000 jobs that we originally didn't include in those earlier reports. so the message of the report was twofold. one, a little better than you thought, and, two, it's kind of steady as she goes, but she goes too slowly. we need to grow faster if we want to bring the unemployment rate down more quickly. we're still stuck in too much of a slog with too many fiscal head winds from problems like the sequester, but underneath all that the economy is rolling along as i have said. >> now, morris, ...

Harmed by the sequester, wondering what washington plans to do for them. >> so many are hurting from this sequestration. i mean a lot of people losing hours, their jobs in the process as well. there has to be a resolution quickly. >> and pilots are getting on the plane, a one-hour delay, blame government. >> sean: they didn't say the sequester was obama's idea. they forgot that detail. what else they didn't say? republicans offered to give him the flexibility so that things like this wouldn't happen. one other thing, they didn't point out obama did what he said he wouldn't do, he flip-flopped ...

Sign, shot in the arm, recovery is happening? the immediate response on wall street is certainly telling. >> let's put it this way. with the revisions upward of the early part of this year, february and march and also april's very solid, 165,000 jobs, certainly we're not stalling, we are not heading into recession. the problem is we're still so deep in a hole, there are still almost 12 million americans who are unemployed and another seven million who are either too discouraged to look for work or working part-time, would rather be working full-time. we don't have enough oomph to get us out of...