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r company, but only three people in the world, they're technical, but there are only three of them. You just pick one of them. And I have, let's say, 100 million to pick from. On average, who's going to be able to pick a better tech person? Just numbers. There's no opinion or subjectivity whatsoever. So when I see America seem to ignore the numbers, the only way that would make sense is if you bel…

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administration has probably done his homework and they have probably created a situation and a structure and incentive system that would favor American workers. Will it be too damaging in the long run? It might be. I think Bindu Reddy is giving us a caution that we should watch out for. But it's also reversible. So I think you run it for six months or a year and then you have the big companies come into the White House and sit there and maybe privately this doesn't have to be public and just say we can't make this work. Or they say you know surprisingly it worked. Or they say the only way this is going to work is if the government does something to train people better, faster or something like that, but more likely it'll get tweaked or reversed.

Anyway, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you remember them? The head of that got fired for the labor numbers being so ridiculously wrong and then always getting corrected. They postponed the release of a key annual report that is central to future inflation data. So unusual. Wales is reporting this on X. And they didn't explain the reasoning for the delay or when it might be released. Well, I've got a sus

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picion. Does anybody want to take a wild guess why the Bureau of Labor Statistics has postponed a new data report? Can anybody take a wild guess? Could it be that the boss, the new boss asked a question that sounds like this? Are these numbers real? And then after that everything just fell off the rails. What else would it be? Right? Is there any other reason it would be delayed? You know, when it…

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