is supposed to be taken care of mike norman is here to talk about it all chief economist at john thomas financial he's going to help us sort this out it's really nice to see you mike too because i haven't gone to interview the. if you for a while because you were on contract with a certain network fox news according to your tweets that i've been reading you are no longer going to be doing that just do you want to tell us briefly why is your tweet seems quite opinionated about why i. know it's look it's been a great run ten years you know it's time for me to move on i mean i've been under an exclusive contract at fox for the last ten years i'd like to be able to do other media but i had a great time and it's just time to move on that's what i'm going to say about that mike your tweets up here right now it says i don't have to deal with their propaganda anymore you want to add me thinking. well look i just think there's a big opportunity out there right now to talk about economics and policy sort of in a non mainstream way and that's what i do and that's what i bring to the table and i think you kn

for now though thanks so much for being on the show that was mike norman chief economist at john thomas financial. ok before we go dmitri is six so wish him well we can banter back and forth today with shannon and the team but this gives me the opportunity to respond to some feedback which is great because on friday i tweeted one of my concerns about the job numbers that kind of started this firestorm so this is what i said about the jobs numbers i said anyone cheering the jobs numbers please tell me why i should be excited that over five point five million people forty two point nine percent of the unemployed have been out of work six months are more is gives me a pit in my stomach now this part a conversation about what are the solutions to unemployment and more broadly the us economic problems dylan ratigan tweeted capitalism requires capital seven hundred trillion dollars and dark credit insurance is our current market foundation start there really good point we couldn't agree more hopefully we'll have him on the show soon to talk about that my tweet also spurred some people who disagreed wit