. >> joining us now alan carl who has written a book called forks. first of all, what is on the front of your book? >> it is actually a motorcycle in the middle of nowhere place in southern south america patagonia, actually. i took that motorcycle for three years alone and wrote it all over the world. >> y? >> you know, a lot of us have passions and dreams and i wanted to travel around the world. photography certainly writing a motorcycle riding. i found myself at a fork in the road unemployed and recently divorced. i sold everything he had an hopped on that motorcycle. >> so why the name? >> a lot of things. become the forks in our lives. and lives. they are the things that keep us and steer us and they are what we share. finally you no, if you are a musician a tuning fork brings harmony and residents there is a lot of meaning. >> before. >> before we get into some of the things i want to talk about the book does have recipes. >> it does. one of the things, this is about my experience of connecting with people and culture. i went on this trip alone

carl mcdonough. we will start with rick because he is crushing it. alan krueger said it was a beautiful report. no other way to describe it. rick: the three-month average is 387,000. three months, we have had a moving average of 300 30,000 private payroll growth. the point is no matter how you look at it, it refuted the wrong wage data from last month. incredibly strong with an economy that is looking well. brendan: i want to read you an example of what is going on in the economies. an italian pasta maker added 23 jobs in ilife making gluten-free pasta. i want to ask something about what carl wrote this morning the fed will raise -- raise rates sooner. we have been saying the fed should move in june --rick: we have been saying the fed should move in june. you could wait till september potential, but you could argue -- if you go back 30 years and look at not only the rate of payroll growth, i would argue it is the best you have seen in 30 years. the 0% funds rate is not the right number. stephanie: dr. question mark -- dr.? carl: i agree with rick on that point. we have talked about good uses ba

brendan: an index hour, we have got alan krueger on to talk jobs but also some work he did with uber looking at the sharing economy. carlthe nature of work changed enough to also change the way wages and unemployment work? carl: well the nature of work is continually changing. union membership declining since the 1960's, the different industries that are driving the economy have changed over that time. we are much less dependent on the manufacturing sector for employment. inventory management has become much more efficient, so all of these things have changed, which is why it is hard to draw parallels to cycles from the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, and is probably more instructive to look back to maybe 1990's, and more importantly the 2001 to 2007 sector. olivia: the rise of the part-time economy, the sharing economy, the uber economy is why we still see slacken wage? josh: it is possible -- joe: it is possible. this was a fertile ground for them to rise because there was all this labor slacken opportunity. it will be a while before we know anything about what the real impact on the economy is, but i think it makes sense

redo the after this presentation carl hoffman will sign it festival purchased copies of his book at telfair square. please join me to thank alan and susan to sponsor his appearance today. [applause] >> he has shared meals and has been traveling and has a lot of golf mysteries however he does not take these adventures for fun or thrills for it to understand the eccentricities of little though parts of the globe. a contributing editor to "national geographic" traveler mr. hoffman is the fourth time winner as well as north america at travel journalism award with the warrants from numerous magazines, he has also published two books. diluted to express with dash so did tick express and savage harvest the he investigates the enduring mysteries of the disappearance of michael rockefeller in their rivers that he died at billions of cannibals. please welcome mr. carl hoffman. [applause] >> thanks for coming now today. always wanted to give a sermon in a church. [laughter] >> when i was said kidd 11 or 12 i lived in the house with a big fur porch that if you open the window to my bedroom you going to the roof of the front porch and for