the last time that happened was 1978. paul krugman recently wrote a piece, don t tell anyone, but 2021 was pretty amazing and he joins me now. on the economy i agree with you, and i feel like it s a bizarrely under underarticulated view. why do you think it was pretty amazing? well, i mean, look, we ve become accustomed to these long, slow job recoveries and it took a long time to dig out of the hole from each of the past three recessions and this time we came out really fast and we are, you know, by number measures we re pretty close to where we were before the pandemic hit. unemployment is back below 4%. prime age employment not quite back to where it was, but back to what it was in 2018. which i don t remember people pulling a bad year so, yeah, i mean, if you were and this is