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So currently, the White House says it expects inflation to rise and new data but says measures will likely normalize later this year. We keep hearing this that it's just temporary, but a many economists are saying they see otherwise. What do you find to be true? This is we're looking at video right there on our screens showing bear shelves. So much so that it's actually trending. Hashtag bear shelves Biden on Twitter? I saw that I saw that yesterday. There's definitely a problem right now with supply chain issue and this has been ongoing, not just in 2022. This has been going on for months in 2021. Several months ago before the holidays, the administration was saying order all of your gifts early, which I think a lot of people did. So the fact is, this is not temporary already, in my opinion, do I think that this is going to end in six months or nine months? Not if things stay the same in reference to the employment situation. So right now we have a problem where we have a lot of people that are still out of work. And when you look at the number of jobs that are available and you look at the unemployment rate, which is hovering around 4.2%, something doesn't really add up. You have 12 million jobs available at an unemployment rate of 4.2%. That unemployment rate should be higher when you look at the number of jobs available. So something just doesn't add up with these numbers, in my opinion, each time that they come out. We have a problem right now where you don't have enough people working to deliver the supplies, which would be the truck drivers. Then you have a problem where you don't have certain companies and manufacturers, they can't make things that people want, or they can't get them, they can't import them. And they don't have the things that they need to make to get the products like say, for example, you want to order furniture, you might get furniture for nine months or 10 months if you order it, or if you even want to have work done in your home, sometimes it takes to buy copper wood, all of these things are taking so much to get. Well, so much more to get and they've actually tripled in prices. But in the time that we have remaining, I do want to go back to you saying that the numbers just don't add up that unemployment numbers should be higher, right? A number of employers have been talking about having to raise wages in order to entice more workers. Obviously, there's been talked that that could be passed on to consumers. So do those numbers signal to you that people aren't just officially filing for unemployment? Why do you think those numbers aren't adding up? The numbers don't add up because a lot of people aren't working and you can tell that when you go in the store as a consumer and try to call on the phone. The other day in New York, the flagship store in Bloomingdale's on 59th Street was closed until 12 o'clock noon. They didn't have it in their website. People were waiting outside. I tried to go to the store said, wait a minute, what's going on? They told everybody I had a sign and said they didn't have inventory. When I went in the store when they finally opened at noon, they had plenty of stuff to sell. They did not have workers. They did not have the staff. Why? Some people have COVID and also the vaccine mandates are creating a problem with people not coming in. So they may not be reporting that they're out of work yet. But I think this is all going to come to a head soon. That's why you've seen the market sell off a lot since the beginning of January this year. The market has had a big sell off since the first day of the year last Monday. We're going to continue obviously to follow this story because it's not going away anytime soon, unfortunately, but we do appreciate your time, Melissa Armo, again, CEO of Stock Swoosh. As always, thank you for your time. Thank you. Speaking of stocks, one Georgia lawmaker now also wanting to put a ban that would no longer allow members of Congress or their spouses to trade stocks. Find out why and the details coming up next.