opentable bookings versus germany opentable booking.ny, we flatlined because the government shutdown that sector of the economy. you can still get take away. i use it a lot. but i think you would get arrested if anyone saw you inside a restaurant or even eating outside at this point. it's great to have you on the program. >> i'm saying germinate is -- germany is the initial team case . when we saw the vaccinations picked up in the u.s., that's when you saw the divergent. we are rooting for germany and we are rooting for you and lynn. matt: thank you very -- rooting for you in berlin. matt: thank you very much. debbie soo getting us some really important intel. president biden announces his tax plan in an address. we are going to get you inside from a citigroup economists. what tax hike could mean for the economy. are they want to start economic growth? we haven't heard that from anyone. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: as a central bank moves forward area at one factor it will have to take into account as president biden's plan for huge stimu

starting in mid-march, the real-time data, things like opentable for restaurants in the tsa data hasicked up substantially. while the official government data has looked pretty good, last week's jobs report, that was taken in the first half of march, and what has happened since then is there has been an acceleration across the board and sectors of the economy like leisure and entertainment that have been shut down by covid and even just in the number of jobs. romaine: what are we seeing in terms of geographical differences? steve: it is interesting because when you look at it geographically, there are some areas that are still suffering, looking at hotels, for example. in florida, miami and tampa are the two markets at the highest level of occupancy of anywhere in the country, which makes sense because people are going to vacation. you get your vaccine, you wait two weeks, then you say, i'm hitting the road, i'm going to take a vacation, and florida is doing well in terms of hotels and so are some of the other coastal markets. that is also true in the restaurant reservations as well.

the other really cool metric i bought a lot of my clients follows called opentable.ews and not some mobile app for reservations. they publish their restaurant reservations every week for all of their users around the world. and by states so you can actually track how many people are going to restaurants and making those reservations on a weekly basis. they're getting real-time with real data. by the way texas and florida are already at pre-pandemic levels when it comes to restaurant reservations print other states are still blank had shepherd those are just two examples of really good metrics to follow you can really gauge on how fast the economy is going. you got to know when to spend your money. >> speaking of money want to talk about now the $16 billion in federal grant money that's going to be available for live event businesses. in less than 24 hours what it would need to know about that? >> it's amazing bright going to go to sba.gov billion available. any company in the arts business theater owners, managers, any type in the arts business like that, you can app