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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Crisell, and joining me in studio this week from Motley Fool

Inside Value Joe Maker, from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early

and for Million Dollar Portfolio, Ron Gross. Happy New Year, guys.

Happy New Year. We've got some good numbers for automakers.

We've got some bad numbers for Barnes and Noble, and we will break down the big deals of the week.

But we begin with the big macro. Friday's jobs report for December is in.

And Ron Gross, I'll start with you. Here are the results.

155,000 jobs added on employment rate at 7.8%. What do you think?

Can I say good but blah? Does that make sense?

You've said it before. So why not?

Everything is unchanged. Unemployment 7.8 unchanged from the revision in November.

The labor force participation rate unchanged at 63.6.

The total unemployment rate, the so-called U6 that we sometimes talk about, unchanged at 14.4.

So we're creating jobs and we're actually creating enough, just enough, really, for things not to go down.

But the numbers aren't moving enough.

But I think we're on a nice trend. We're seeing really good numbers consistently now.

The fiscal cliff is behind us, kind of.

That's healing to come. That's healing to come.

But I like the momentum. I like the trend we're on.

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