are whaactively looking for wor. if you stop looking for work. if you say it is done and i can t find anything. you are no longer unemployed. if you adjust for that. nobody had moved to no longer being in the labor force and you don t see the drop. you see rates that are a couple of points higher. some people stop looking for work because they are getting older. some of that is going to happen no matter what the economy looks like. some of that is the result of a bad economy. i do think it is fair to say that the economy is somewhat worse. some of the drop down to the mid 7s is coming from people not getting jobs but people getting depressed and stopping looking for jobs. what is interesting, if we
kids, whether they get to go somewhere fun on vacation. in other words, how happy things are at home. right now the numbers are looking a bit better, the value of your house is probably heading upward. your 401(k) is probably doing better if you re retired, because the stock market is. you ve got a better chance of finding and holding a job, because the unemployment rate has come down from where it was down to the mid 7s. so when somebody calls up to ask how you re doing, you re more likely to say, president obama is doing a better job on the economy, that s what s going on now. would it still be going on next november? we ll see. jim cramer will help us, he s the host of mad money. and chairman of the dnc. there s strong indications the u.s. economy is on the upswing, gross domestic product rose 2.5% in the first quarter of 2013.
on friday night or get to buy new shoes for the kids. whether they get to go somewhere fun on vacation. the numbers are looking better. the value of your house is heading upward because the average selling price is up 10%. your 401(k) is probably doing better if you re retired because the stock market is. you ve got a better chance of finding, also holding a job right now. the unemployment rate which still ain t great has come down from where it was down to the mid-7s. when somebody calls up, a pollster, for example, asks whoever it is how you re doing, you re more likely to say president obama is doing a better job on the economy and that s what s going on right now. will it still be going on next november when we have the next congressional elections? we ll see. jim cramer is going to help us. he s the host of mad money weeknights at 6:00 on cnbc. u.s. congressman steve israel is chairman of the democratic congressional committee. thank you, gentlemen. there s strong indications th
the value of your house is heading upward because the average selling price is up 10%. your 401(k) is probably doing better if you re retired because the stock market is. you ve got a better chance of finding, also holding a job right now. the unemployment rate which still ain t great has come down from where it was down to the mid-7s. when somebody calls up, a pollster, for example, asks whoever it is how you re doing, you re more likely to say president obama is doing a better job on the economy and that s what s going on right now. will it still be going on next november when we have the next congressional elections? we ll see. jim cramer is going to help us. he s the host of mad money weeknights at 6:00 on cnbc. u.s. congressman steve israel is chairman of the democratic congressional committee. thank you, gentlemen. there s strong indications the u.s. economy is on the upswing right now. gross domestic product rose 2.5% in the first quarter of 2013. the deficit is projected to b
purchase. toys r us has a christmas fund, remember the old christmas clubs? i do remember those. at the end of the year, then, you can go and spend your money for your kids at toys r us. that s a way to get you savinging now. they kick in up to 3% and you pay for your christmas gifts for your kids at toys r us. that gets your money. staples has penny sales and free items. if you look around, you see more of this. somebody in the credit card industry say they have been looking at credit scores and looking at people whose credit score has dropped from 600s and used to be in the mid 7s. they want to see thou get them to spend money. they think that person is a responsible user of money and credit and they are trying to