#MrMarket: Jobs volcano & what recession? Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
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#MrMarket: Jobs volcano & what recession? Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons
https://www.wsj.com/articles/january-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-economy-growth-2023-11675374490
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| 0:41.2 | The jobs numbers report strong hiring across industries fuels robust jobs growth. |
| 0:47.0 | Payrolls rise by 517,000 jobless rate is lowest since 1969. |
| 0:54.0 | 1960 and I was not a good year in the United States. Vietnam, the Cold War and what we knew |
| 1:02.4 | to be in the quandary of how to solve the American ideal against the Soviet Union and the Chinese |
| 1:10.7 | communists at the same time. It was a mystery. We routinely joked about Armageddon because |
| 1:16.8 | both sides had nuclear weapons poised at each other. That is the benchmark for what we've |
| 1:22.4 | just experienced. Everybody was working. There was a war economy. I welcome Jim McTay. |
| 1:28.4 | He is the former Washington editor for Barron's magazine now a novelist. Jim and I both |
| 1:33.4 | remembered 1969. This is the best jobless rate since then, but the trick of the days it |
| 1:42.1 | was a surprise. Jim, a very good evening to you. What job softening? Where and what recession? |
| 1:50.0 | Where can we find it in these numbers? Good evening to you. |
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| 2:00.4 | balloon is bigger and flying higher than ever. If the Chinese in that balloon look out the |
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