It's Friday, February 6th, 2026. We've got a Friday five-pack and not ask or tell me anything.

Our poll of the week is coming up next on the AM update.

Well, I needed a day off to rest the vocal cords. I haven't really felt that sick. Don't really feel that awful.

Just had a nasty voice there for a few days as the

sickness has been making its way through my and pretty much everybody else's family over the last

few weeks it sounds like. Let's get to a Friday five-pack before we go into our very much

responded to poll of the week in the second segment. First, we're going to start with this. It's

time to start sounding the danger Will Robinson or danger economy alarm bells.

U.S. employers announced job cuts surged in January and hit the highest level since 2009.

Global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger Gray and Christmas

found that employers announced 108,435 job cuts in January, an increase from the 49,795 cuts

announced in the same month last year. Job cuts increased 205% from December when they were

35,553 layoffs. This January saw the most layoffs for the month of January since 2009 when

241,000 cuts were announced also the highest monthly total since October 2025, when there were 153,000

layoffs.

Not a great sign.

We had some, there are a number of different employment analytics firms out there.

I believe it was a few weeks ago.

We had some good data in terms of young people, I think it was, getting

into the labor market also mixed with some bad data. I mean, I think that data was the highest

median age for first-time job holder, something along those lines. There are just too many smoke

signals. There's just too much smoke when it comes to this fire.

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