r-year high. So it's still not more than 50% but 44% now, which is much higher than it used to be. Think things are on the right track.

So as I often remind you, the economy is based on expectations and resources. We usually can find ways to get the resources in today's world. So the expectations are what are kind of dominant. And when people think things are going in the right direction, then they invest and they hire people and then things do go in the right direction. So that's important.

Apparently Bill Cassidy, who's a Republican, and also the Pfizer CEO have both said that Trump should be considered for the Nobel Prize for peace based on his warp speed COVID vaccination work. So do you think that the warp speed project which brought vaccinations to us, well don't call them vaccinations, I got it, shots to us faster, is that a peace operation? Was there a war I didn't know about?

What's funny about this is that Trump has planted in people's heads the idea that there's some reason he should get a Nobel Peace Prize. So he's made it a thing that we think about. If you had never thought about it, the odds of him getting one would be lower, I think. But the fact that everyone sort of just thinks about it now because he's just inserted it into our minds.

And this is a good example because I don't think most of you would think that no matter what you thought of the shot that that had anything to do with peace. It had nothing to do with peace. But everybody sort of understands that if you want Trump on your side, it would be really helpful to publicly say he should get a Nobel Peace Prize. I feel like everyone has tried that now. Like everyone who wants him to be on their side thinks, you know what would be the best way to get him on our side? I've got an idea about he gets the Nobel Peace Prize for whatever. Doesn't matter what.

Anyway, I do respect President Trump for demanding that we find out for sure whether his Project Warp Speed saved lives or killed people. And he wants it to be that it was the greatest thing, that he saved lives, but he's also clearly open to the argument of a lot of people in his base that the data doesn't support that. So he's asking for better data. And I like that because so easily he could have stuck to his guns and just said no, it's the best thing ever, give me the Nobel Prize. But he's not. He's saying I don't know if it was good or bad because the data is sketchy and he's demanding that they have better data. So I don't know whichever way that goes I'm happy that he's asking for it.

There are some reports that are being denied, I think, *Post Millennial* is writing about this, that Trump might at least be considering giving Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams, who are both running for mayor of New York, some kind of job offer to get them out of the race so that Cuomo would have a better chance of beating Mamdani. I think there's some question about whether that's real. You know, maybe it's just something some advisors talked about but not too serious.

But my question was, why would that be legal? Would it be legal to effectively bribe somebody to get out of a race? Is there no law against that if doing so would guarantee who won the race? It wouldn't be illegal to bribe somebody to quit. I don't know how does