say the germans recognize that. but ironically, the communique also indicates both the u.s. and europe are worried the other will cut spending enough to trigger a global recession, and it warns against doing so. jon? jon: wendell goler, thank you. jenna: turning back to the economy as wendell just left us off there, brand new numbers on the job market showing we have the fewest job openings in five months. right now if you re looking for a job, you re competing against four people. that s a tough environment. for context, during normal times there s one job opening for every two people who want a job. during the depths of our crisis, there were nearly six people competing for every one job. so if you re looking for a job, you re competing against four people. we are seeing, of course, some improvement in the job market, but as we take a look at those numbers, there s still a ways to go to back to what was once considered normal.
network s point of view a complete success that these young men went very deep into our system without really being detected, all the way to the point of detonation of their device. and so from the terrorist network point of view they are showing global reach, an organization that is harder to track and i think they now have us very much on the defensive where they have a total war on us and we are having a limited war on them, largely with law enforcement in the lead at home. jon: steven yates, i wish we could talk more, interesting points there. thank you. thank you very much. jane: i want to get to business news now. the job market showing fresh signs this morning of recovery. new claims for unemployment benefits are dropping it sounds like for the third week in a row. initial claims take a look here last week falling by 7,000. reporter: that is exactly what we re looking at right now. the which are so far is showing us this, the number of americans collecting pheurs time