xavier did better than when you were there we beat moller don't pretend like that's never happened. >ngs for the right reasons, the right things will usually happen don't worry about it >> mr. speaker, thanks for coming on. really, i would like to have you back and talk about a commentator on politics today. thank you. >> well, we'll see >> okay. all right. doesn't pay a lot. andrew >> i think that was a non-answer we've got weekly jobless claims and retail sales just hitting the tape rick santelli has the numbers. rick >> reporter: yes, they're very good numbers we start out with empire manufacturing at 26.3, that's the best level since 26.6, that was october of 2017. on initial jobless claims expecting a number to challenge 700? not only did we challenge 700, we challenged 600. 576,000 a new post-covid low that follows a slightly revised 744 that moved up to 769,000 also a new post-covid low when it comes to continuing claims. continuing claims moved to 3,731,000. but -- but there was also revision to last month last month actually now becomes the new low. 3,727,000, so that becomes