How's that BLS data coming along?
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Our picture of the U.S. economy grows fuzzier each day the government shutdown continues. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which publishes the most reliable economic data, has been a barebones operation since the shutdown began. In this episode, how this month’s data from the public and private sectors may be affected. Plus: Recruiters give mixed takes on the job market, oil services companies are up against low prices and a supply glut, and streaming platforms set their sights on video games and podcasts.
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| 0:47.1 | Okay, work with me on this one. |
| 0:50.3 | What we've got right now is Schrodinger's economic data. |
| 0:54.6 | It is simultaneously good and bad until we open the box. |
| 1:01.1 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm Kyle Rizdal. It is Monday, today the 20th of October. It is always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:25.6 | I would start things off today by reading you a list of the economic data we are going to get this week. But it would be a real short list, as you know, |
| 1:28.9 | what with the government not governmenting, lo, these past three weeks. We will get a delayed version |
| 1:35.1 | of the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index on Friday, good for the Federal Reserve, |
| 1:39.6 | as it gets set for its interest rate meeting next week and good for social security recipients whose |
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