well, peter was cool, jason furman is ice. he is chairman of the president's council of economic advisors. he's been serving president obama since day one as a senior economic advisor. he helped steer the nation out of the great recession. he also served under president bill clinton, which means, between the two presidents jason is responsible at least partly for about 30 million private sector jobs. he has a ph.d. from harvard. a long pedigree of books and articles on economics. he's a father of three and a brand-new father, three weeks. his son felix. and he was also the subject last year of the best "washington post" profile i have ever read. i'm just going to give you a couple of highlights. one is he can juggle six flaming torches at once. number two, he unsuccessfully argued to his wife that chopping wood failed the comparative economic advantages benefits test. and he is far less successful than his college freshman roommate, matt damon. so, with that, jason, thank you for joining us today. jason is going to lead off wi

walmart has reduced prices for the poor by an estimated $2,000 plus per household, that's from jason furmanas obama's economic adviser. more than $2,000 to every family in america -- can. john: this was his research before obama. >> exactly. intellectually honest economist. if you're poor and you can reduce your costs, your life is better. capitalism, when allowed to do so, always reduces costs, increases quality and creates more diversity which is why we need to allow walmart and other companies to give more poor people more access to better goods and services for lower prices. john: all right. they and we can buy stuff save money, buy it for less. but when they're paying $9 an hour and they voluntarily raised it above minimum wage because it's good pr for them, and it helps them keep good workers and it's how the market should work but people say $9 that's good middle -- that guts good middle class jobs. people can't live on that. in fact a lot of walmart workers are getting government subsidies. >> it's not walmart's fault. walmart is part of a globalization movement. millions of jobs ar

. >> white house economic adviser jason furman talked about economic statistics and how to interpret economic data at the rushing to d.c. think tank. this is one hour. >> thank you everybody. thank you for coming up. this is a beautiful washington summer friday afternoon. my name is jim koestner. our goal today, for those those in the room and those were watching at home is to make us better consumers of economic news and economic reports. in essence to be our own to help us achieve that mission we are lucky to have jason furman with us today. in his early time with president obama -- he is serving president obama since day one as a senior economic visor. he helps steer the nation out of the great recession and served under pres. bill clinton which means between the two presidents he is responsible, at least partly for many private-sector jobs. he has a phd from phd from harvard, he is a father of three and a brand-new father, three weeks to his son felix. i'm just going to give you a couple highlights. he can juggle six flaming torches at once. number two he unsuccessfully argued to

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with the right now for comments by jason furman speaking today about the monthly jobs report from the bureau of labor statistics. this event hosted by the third way think tank. live coverage on c-span2. >> -- to help us achieve the mission, we are fortunate to have with us jason furman. jason early in his first term, president obama said he made he him a nerd core cool. he's chairman of the president council of economic advisers and has been serving president obama can stay one a senior economic adviser. he held serve the nation of the great recession and also served under president bill clinton which means between the two presidents is responsible for 30 million jobs. he has a phd from harvard with articles on economics. he's the father of three and a brand-new father, three weeks now and his son felix and is also the subject lack dear of the best "washington post" profile i've ever read. he can juggle six flame torches at once. number two he unsuccessfully argued to his wife that chopping wood failed to compare it at the package economic advantage test and is far less successful tha