are making? nick saban, arguably, you know, i should drop the arguably, best coach of all time in college football history, but with this contract, over $90 million, over eight years, breaks down to $11.7 million a year, the highest paid college football coach that we have this year. but also in history, really, at this point. and again, maybe no one else who deserves it more, but the interesting part about it is that he jumped ahead of university of georgia s kirby smart. now, university of georgia, i have to bring it up, sorry, they beat alabama for the national championship, but a bystander, i was aware. bama has gotten them back and forth. it is a rivalry. kirby smart was also a coordinator under saban. their rivalry comes all the way down even to the contract and just for comparison, 2015, two coaches making $7 million a year, nick saban is one of them. now less than ten years later, we have over 12. the money has been pumping into college football. i m nervous to join t
found that is happening that companies are telling me, they have 11.7 million people who are still working remotely because of covid. you have all these companies that want people to come back, even for a few days a week, and now they re saying we realize gas price right side $5 a gallon, just please, you can continue to work remotely, just don t turn over to another company. they really want to keep their workers. in some cases recognizing that inflation is now part of this retention story that we ve been talking about for so long. it also feels like, you know, oil prices are dropping, well, that should be good news, but not exactly. right. the idea that the jobs market is so hot, that s great, not exactly. everything has an asterisk. it s such an interesting point because we hear the fed talk a lot about the jobs market because demand, as christine was saying, for workers has been so hot, i mean, powell has talked about how there are two open jobs for every one person looki
to contain this variant. that means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. a rise in cases plunged the country back into a national lockdown. shops, bars and restaurants were forced to close once again. any festive cheer turned into a painful hangover. schools shut their doors. travel ground to a halt. and office workers settled down in spare rooms and on kitchen tables, to work from home once again. and for those who couldn t, an extended furlough scheme helped to prop up earnings. the scheme supported the wages of more than 11.7 million people after it launched in march 2020. but it came at a heavy price,
a rise in cases plunged the country back into a national lockdown. shops, bars and restaurants were forced to close once again. any festive cheer turned into a painful hangover. schools shut their doors. travel ground to a halt. office workers settled down in spare rooms and on kitchen tables, to work from home once again. and for those who couldn t, an extended furlough scheme helped prop up earnings. the scheme supported the wages of more than 11.7 million people after it launched in march in 2020. but it came at a heavy price, and by the time the scheme was wound down in the summer it had cost more than £70 billion. down in the summer, it had cost more than £70 billion. but even then, many firms feared
shops, bars and restaurants were forced to close once again. any festive cheer turned into a painful hangover. schools shut their doors. travel ground to a halt. and office workers settled down in spare rooms and on kitchen tables, to work from home once again. and for those who couldn t, an extended furlough scheme helped to prop up earnings. the scheme supported the wages of more than 11.7 million people after it launched in march 2020. but it came at a heavy price, and by the time the scheme was wound down in the summer, it had cost more than £70 billion. but even then, many firms feared it was being withdrawn too soon. many still were not able to operate at full capacity and warned that without financial help, they could be forced to close. how confident are you that you will