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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here on your host, Chris Held.

I'm joined by Motley Fool Senior Analyst, Joe Maker, James Early, and Tim Hansen.

Guys, good to see you.

On this week's show, BP Caps the Well, Price Line gives William Schattener something to sing about,

and China braces for a crash.

We'll also talk ants, bees, and investors with National Geographic Senior Editor Peter Miller.

But we begin with Friday's jobs report, and the numbers were not pretty.

Private employers added only 71,000 jobs in July that was below the consensus forecast of 90,000.

The unemployment rate held at 9.5%, and the under-employment rate, which includes part-time workers looking for full-time work,

and people who have given up looking altogether, the under-employment rate remains at 16.5%.

James Early, not a lot of positives here.

True, Chris. At this point, we almost don't need a jobs report to tell us that we're hurting.

I can do that for you.

What's really important, though, is that starting as of July of last year,

we started to see some positive momentum in jobs, specifically non-farm perils.

The rate of decline slowed. It started getting better.

We actually added a few jobs this spring.

But with June and these July figures now, the momentum has officially reversed.

So it's obviously bad to take away here is that the Fed might step in now to try to prevent deflation.

Deflation is something that encourages businesses and consumers to conserve cash,

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