Ej Antoni

We had a revision down last month to 133,000 jobs from 166,000 jobs, so the BLS data continues to be inconsistent and unreliable, which is a problem.

And remember, President Trump tried, tried to replace the head of the BLS, um, with EJ Antoni earlier in th- in this term, and that didn't, he didn't pass through for whatever reasons.

Um, so the revisions are definitely a problem.

The other things that stuck out, stood out, which are very nice to see, is we're seeing government jobs on the, the negative, and we're seeing manufacturing and construction jobs on the positive.

It is Dom Time.

Welcome in one of our all-time favorites, of course, EJ Antoni, chief economist for the Institute for Economic Policy Studies and a Richard Astor fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

And along with a, uh, colleague, you wrote a brilliant column in the New York Post this week that I reference about, you know, one of the centerpieces here, younger Americans, whatever age you want to talk about, all that stuff, median age of getting the first home, uh, student loan debt.

Have they ever really experienced capitalism or the wonders of capitalism? EJ joins us here on Talk Radio 1210.

That makes absolutely no sense.

And so, no, you should not be able to get a degree that ends in the word studies and bury yourself in a mountain of debt that eventually the taxpayer is gonna have to cover for you.

Uh, talking with EJ Antoni.

So, uh, EJ, um, I see signs, though, that maybe Americans want a little dash of socialism in, uh, their every d- I, I, I look at sports.

Thank you, Dom.

Our buddy EJ Antoni is in the on-deck circle.

He says, uh, people, young people, we're just talking about affordability, never really have experienced true capitalism.

EJ's the econom- Is he right? Or do people like, like the NFL? They like quasi-socialism.

And how does that interact with this teacher now found out not to be Black and not to be Palestinian, in fact, to be Jewish and white, and when caught, she says, "Yes, I have privilege." There you go, in the Philadelphia public schools, too, and what are they going to do about it? But first, the, um, diesel situation.

So as we left it yesterday, brilliant call by, uh, EJ Antonio yesterday from The Heritage Foundation, and he brought up the cost of diesel.

He brought up some of the stuff, Ukraine, Russia, among other things.

And again, they're talking about now, and I am completely on board, and it should have happened before now, of not exporting in the near term our diesel, keeping it here.

Natalie's gonna join us momentarily.

Uh, EJ and Tony is on.

EJ, as I said, uh, the, um, the biggest acceleration has flipped in, like, 24 hours, I think after, uh, the OpenAI public offering got pulled.

Um, but, uh, to be, "Hey, we're all open to, uh, we're all open for regulation," these are people that fought like wildcats to make sure that we can never, ever, ever, ever, ever have any controls.

But as we've seen from your analysis and others, o- one of the things they're trying to do is use that as, "Oh yeah, you can come in, like, once a, every six months and check out what we're doing." But what they're really trying to do is, uh, is really regulatory control, right? Regulatory...

This is a regulatory grab, sir, to create a moat around four of the five of the biggest companies.

EJ and Tony.

Steve, me, I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head there.