at what point do these company ceos hire more. to work around hiring new people. there is no question that for the last several years it s been efficiency squeezing more out of less. i don t think that is going to change. at some point you can t squeeze. i think we re starting to see that. i think the job numbers will continue to improve, no spring swoon for our economy, we ll probably see strong throughout the summer and i think this year could surprise as far as gdp growth. won t be a great year but better than expected. i think that s something that will please everybody. we want our americans to get back to work. we appreciate you are the managing director and partner of hightower. thanks, mike. 175,000 was pretty good but it pales in comparison to 194 last year, the average. a long way to go to create economic growth which is pretty stagnant. we really need to get it
15,000 caps. which you have on the ready. you reach a milestone. took us 6 years to get from 14,000 to 15,000. lots of new hikes. waiting for the spring swoon. we have seen it every spring for the past three years this year not happening. look at the major averages so far this year. they are all up pretty firmly. we have a quick look at the most highly trafficked airports in the country. these airports are considered the most crowded in america according to forbes. seattle tacoma coming in at 05, seattle airport at number 4. charlotte, douglas and the winner this is jackson airport in atlanta received more than 250,000 travelers every single day. believe it or not atlanta is within a 2 hour flight of 80 percent of the people living in america. it is crowded based on the
rife with violence. for our part, dealing with the consumption side of narco terrorism has proved to be not particularly successful. we have our own problems with respect to the consumption side. the mexicans have to work harder in securing their terrain and securing our border as well. jared, if we can turn now to our economy because, you know, we just got jobs numbers yesterday, and let s take a look at the situation here at home, just this week we saw the dow and the s&p hit record highs. we also saw some pretty good jobs numbers yesterday. does this indicate we re finally on the road to recovery? well, we ve been on the road to recovery. the problem is it s been a windy road. the jobs report yesterday helped in the sense that we thought based on some earlier jobs numbers that the economy was once again slowing down in spring. economists talked about a possible spring swoon. well, not only were the numbers
awhile and just admire how gorgeous it is? but no we re going to mind your business this morning. wall street is waiting for only one thing today, it is the april jobs report. it s just over two hours away now. and stock futures holding steady in anticipation. it is a report on the economy, your job, and your money. the expectation is right around 140,000 jobs created. the expectation is the unemployment rate to stay unchanged at about 7.6%. but christine romans is here with what could be a wild card in this report. the interesting thing about this report. we re looking for 140,000. last month was a shocker. remember it was 88,000. that was a real disappointment. and it missed the mark by a lot. a half a million people dropped out of the workforce taking the labor participation rate down to the lowest level in three decades. i m going to be very, very closely watching that because it s a sign that confidence isn t high, people don t look for work until they have some hope that they
people out there. christine romans, a business guru, alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. you will continue to be with us from mexico. stephen moore from the wall street journal on the phone with us. jessica was mentioning this, the statement from the white house, bottom, it says in talking about the numbers. it s important not to read too much into any one monthly report and informative to consider each report in the context of other data that will be coming available. what does the white house mean by that? they are trying to you look at the very beginning of the report. they say, quite frankly, while more work remains to be done, they are measured in the response to this. a lot of economists have been worried about a spring swoon. a slowdown in growth. the growth rate of the american economy into the spring, and that had been the worry. big revisions in february and