joining me isjoe brusuelas, global chief economist at rsm, an accounting and consulting firm.tely, we unfortunately, we are going to get a distorted report due to the large hurricane that impacted the american southeast and an ongoing labour action in the us civilian aircraft sector. we think we will see about 120,000 increase in about 120 , 000 increase in overall employment about 120,000 increase in overall employment of 4.1% unemployment rate, and a strong 4% increase in wage gains. so despite the distortion, we are going to draw from the labour report a fundamental picture as we head into the election of an economy at full employment anchored around price stability, and that is a good problem to have.— stability, and that is a good problem to have. talk to -- talk to us — problem to have. talk to -- talk to us about _ problem to have. talk to -- talk to us about what - problem to have. talk to -- talk to us about what you i problem to have. talk to -- i talk to us about what you think the underlying performances. what is the broader situation? i think all we need is betwee

joe brusuelas is principal and chief economist at rsm. hello to you.wo men have got in mind. that is a massive saving, isn't it? how do you think they will do it? they won't. remember, the doge is not legally—binding. it is going to be part of trump's kitchen cabinets, which in the vernacular of american politics means you have very influential people who can perhaps set some of the ideas around the loose framework that is going to be the trump administration. my big takeaway was that they wanted to severely or significantly reduce the headcount in the federal government employment base. so the federal government employs about 3 million people. that is down from 3.3 million people about 30 years ago. and that sits within a base of 160 million people in the united states to work. so let's say you just want to reduce that by 10,000, 10%, you have a big number. it is a nice big round number. it is a nice big round number and you number. it is a nice big round numberand you can number. it is a nice big round number and you can talk to your base about it. b