along inflation. everyone wants wages to go up but not with prices going up. then the fed has to really, you know, thrust the economy into a recession to break that cycle. we want to have enough workers for jobs that are open. we are getting people back into the workforce. the trouble is, not trouble, but they're being put to work almost immediately when they come to work so that's driving down the unemployment rate to near historic lows. >> two minutes into the market day. how are the markets reacting, dom? >> overall, and to steve's point, there is a lot of hope and hope for all of us as americans that things are getting back to normal, but hope is not an investment strategy. traders and investors are looking at numbers like today, trying to figure out if it changes the narrative in the next 6, 12, 18 months not just for the economy but the markets overall. you've een a pullback from record highs we've seen not just in the dow and the s&p but the