Welcome back. Economic activity seeing quote little to no growth in recent weeks. That according to the Fed's latest Facebook survey.Investors now looking ahead to this Friday's jobs report for more clarity on where this economy is going. Joining me now to Slack. He is Apollo partner and chief economist.And I mispronounced your last name and you I hope will accept my sincere apologies for that. >> Of course. All good.I've heard many variants of my name over the last many many years. So >> the the correct on ...

And let's bring in Torston Slock. He is partner and chief economist at Apollo. And Torstston, don't worry.We're not going to ask you to pine on any of the geopolitical stuff. You your job as an economist is to factor in all the costs that we see and establish a conclusion. Here's the reality about the price of oil. We we think about the price of oil when it comes to gasoline.And that's true. About half of a barrel of oil goes into gasoline. But oil goes into a lot of things.Plastics, natural gas, by the way ...