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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week

from Motley Fool One, Jason Moser from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early and for

a million dollar portfolio and the MDPD value Ron Gross. Good to see you gentlemen.

We have got the latest from General Retail, Fashion Retail and Non-Retail as well, just

in case you were worried that this was an all retail show. We've got money tips from

personal finance expert Deanna Yohkum. We will dip into the full mail bag and give you

a few stock ideas for your watch list. But we begin this week with the big macro. December

jobs report came out Friday morning. 252,000 jobs added in the month of December Ron, the

unemployment rate falls to 5.6%. What's not to love? I think it looks really good. November

was revised upwards as well. Created 353,000 jobs in November. You six number we sometimes

talk about, which is that all encompassing unemployment number also did well. 11.4 down now to

11.2%. Looking pretty good. The one sticking point and this isn't new is wages, which are

not really climbing as we would like to see them. In fact, they were down for the month,

which brought the annual gain down to a positive 1.7% rather endemic. Not only do we need

to get people back to work, but we need to see people continually increasing their wages

because we need those folks to spend to drive the economy. The offset to that will be the

low gas prices. For now, we can get away with that, I think, because the low gas prices

will put more money in people's pockets and should have them continue to spend. But

longer term, we need to see some increase in wages. Now, the offset to that is the lack

of... The second or the third offset. That's quite a few. I've got just a seven-word point.

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