within the last hour, we ve learned that some 230,000 americans filed new jobless claims last week, this as a key inflation measure hit a record high last year. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is with us now. this is a classic example of take the good with the bad i imagine because the jobs figures are good, the inflation ones are tough. it s the pandemic, economy. jim. a little higher than expected but the trend for weekly jobless claims really good. guys, it was with misery for months we reported hundreds of thousands of people being laid off every week. we are now down to previrus levels, and when you look at continuing jobless claims, people have been getting a check for a couple weeks or longer,