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morning. we re just talking. do you think they should settle? i was saying to pop in there like go. i didn t even have time to answer that. i mean, it s fast fox news, by the way in dominion. what do you think? fascinating. i think they have a lot to weigh in whether lives are going to a good start morning, everyone said. there s a lot lot to wait here. you know , i think there is a value and a trial and there s also risk in a trial. yeah we ll see. we ll see . we re going to update you on all of that. good morning, everyone, caitlin today it s just popping i so we re gonna get started with the five things to know for this monday, april 17 2023. we re going to start with the dominion trial that dominion trials start, though. in that box defamation trial abruptly delayed until tomorrow . the wall street journal is reporting its because fox is making a late effort to settle we ll get into that. also, protesters taking to the streets of kansas city after a 16 year old was shot a
. but there s still so many recession warnings and both of these things are true. you look at c p pp inflation. as we reported here last week that it appears that they have peaked and they re coming down pretty rapidly here. so the inflation story is getting better. you also have a job market that is still pretty strong here. even with a little bit of weakness. lately, it is still overall strong job market and give the treasury secretary secretary this weekend. who told our fareed zakaria that look, you can have both things happening at the same time. a strong job mark. kit. and lower inflation. listen. i think we probably need some easing of stress in the labor market to get inflation down. but that doesn t mean that we need to see unemployment rise significantly. i believe a strong labor market and bringing down inflation are compatible goals interesting because there s that cruel kind of trade off that we keep hearing about
ever had a great brand in america but right now it s pretty toxic. big news with the economy adding 678,000 jobs last month. that the best month of job growth since july. but is the u.s. job mark, is it back to pre pandemic levels yet? well, this is a hot jobs market. but no, not fully yet recovered. the losses from covid. the united states is still 2.1 million jobs shy of where it was before the pandemic began. the and i lost 22 million jobs. so there is been a ton of progress. one economist said this has been mind boggling fast recovery. the unemployment rate is down to 3.8%, the lowest level of the pandemic era. it appeared at nearly 15% down to 3.8% now. this shows the u.s. economy and the jobs market in particular
sundar pichai has given interviews before, but rarely as much time as this. there are no agreed questions and nothing is off limits. sundar interview, take four. a mark. b mark. sundar, let s start by talking a bit about this moment in history. in my work for the bbc over the last few years, i ve been arguing that we re living through a kind of epoch shift. technology is central to that. when you think about your career, when you think about the pandemic we ve just been through, the transformations to come, where do you think you would put us? where do you think we are as a species in the long story that is humanity? wow, it s a big question. we ll start big, and we ll get narrower as we go along. look, i ve always felt there is this constant progress which comes with technology, and it almost happens whether or not humans actually want that level of progress. i go through these thought experiments and i ask,