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I've said it before I will say it again, the headlines may go elsewhere, but this economy

never rests from American public media. This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdole. It is Friday today, the sixth of January. It has always

to have you along. Everybody, it has been understandably a week in which the political news has

dominated the economic. That news, the political, is better covered elsewhere, as you know,

while we stay in our lane and a crowded economic lane, it has been. We will get to it this

week. Heather Long, is it the Washington Post on a Swanson? Is it the New York Times?

Hey, too.

Hi, Kai.

Heather, let me start with you. Of course, we start with this morning's December jobs report

223,000 new jobs in the economy the last month of last year. 3.5% is the new number on the

unemployment rate down to 10s. You called it on Twitter this morning. Great, which it

is. Everything's moving in the right direction. I do wonder, though, if part of the reason

it's great is that there are some signs of moderation a little bit.

Yeah, that's a really fair point. I mean, obviously the Federal Reserve wants the labor market

to cool off a little bit. But it's even though it's cooling off and we saw a few signs

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