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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

That'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 Supern of Amat Argus Singer and from

a million dollar portfolio, Ron Gross. Good to see you, Jens.

We've got a hot IPO, a spin-off we've been waiting for and a proposed merger that we

can't make sense of. Best selling author, John Lanchester will help us break down the

language of money and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But once again this week we begin with the big macro. The jobs report for September is

out. We added 248,000 jobs. The numbers for both July and August were revised up.

John Gross, the unemployment rate. The rate has dropped below 6%. It sits at 5.9%.

First time in six years we've seen it below 6%. The big takeaway for me is that more people

went back to work here. It wasn't just a function of that fuzzy math we talk about where people

left the labor force. We actually have people working. The U6 number we sometimes talk about

with a more full measure of employment actually dipped under 12% to 11.8. That looks good

as well. The economy really appears to be picking up steam.

Matti, there were some people looking at the numbers that we had over the summer which

weren't bad and thinking well it's not going to get any better than this. This kind of sets

us up for a nice end to 2014.

It does. The numbers for previous months were revised up and so far this year we're averaging

over 220,000 new jobs a month. You have to go back to 1999 when we had that consistent

number of pace consecutive months with that kind of labor increases. It's great news. I agree

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