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Hello and welcome to Macrodose. Macrodoze. Macrodoze Hello and welcome to Macrodose, a podcast hosted by me, James Meadway, that brings you your weekly fix of everything economics in a quick, 15-minute roundup.

Each Wednesday morning, we bring you the key stories making the news and the analysis you need to make sense of them.

On today's episode,

we'll be covering, first, as President Biden makes his annual address on the State of the Union,

we'll be taking a quick look at some new job figures that signal positive news for the US economy.

Second, we'll dig a bit deeper into asking why this good news for the US might be bad news

for the rest of the world.

And finally, I'll be covering the record-breaking profits for BP, Shell, ExxorMobil,

and any other fossil fuel producer, which have skyrocketed over the last year.

For a first story today, I wanted to take a quick look at some new data coming out of the United

States, as of last Friday, that shows a surprise wave of job growth and what it tells us about

future of the world's largest economy.

We're recording this episode just hours before Joe Biden is supposed to speak to the nation

at his annual State of the Union address, a yearly message delivered by the US President to a

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