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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews John Carney, editor at Breitbart Business News.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs, and John explains the factors behind the numbers. Companies may increase productivity by assigning more tasks to current employees, resulting in less hiring. They also discuss the reasons for frequent revisions to job numbers.

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0:00.0

Mr. New York. It's Mark Simone on W.O.R.

0:05.0

We bring you the smartest people around now. Bright Bart Business Digest. You've got to read this.

0:12.5

You've got to subscribe to this. It's very important. Bright Bart Business Digest. The president reads it. I mean the the smartest people, Larry Kudlow,

0:21.4

the first thing they read every day.

0:23.0

Breitbart Business Digest, go to Brightbart,

0:25.7

and where it says newsletters, sign up for the Brightbart Business Digest.

0:29.3

It's free.

0:29.7

It'll come right to your email, but sign up for it at brightbart.com.

0:34.6

And the editor of the Business Digest is the brilliant John Carney and he's with us right now.

0:39.5

John Carney, how you doing?

0:42.0

Thanks for having me, Mark.

0:43.1

And yeah, thanks for reading the Bright Bar Business Digest.

0:47.2

Well, thanks for doing it.

0:48.4

It's great stuff.

0:49.2

Now, the jobs numbers today was supposed to be up 50,000.

0:53.1

It's way down.

0:55.3

And they even revised down previous report. What happened? Yeah, it is a very bad jobs report. There's

1:03.5

probably a few non-economic factors going on. Remember how harsh February was weather-wise. We had days where like,

1:15.5

you know, we had blizzards in New York. There was days where it was zero degrees, less than

1:22.4

zero degrees. You're not hiring and you're not looking for a job in that kind of weather.

1:27.5

So that was probably contributed to part of it.

1:30.9

But look, the forecasts were supposedly taking that into account.

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