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#MrMarket: The jobs market surges past Wall Street gurus. Jim McTague, Former Washington Editor of Barron's.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#MrMarket: The jobs market surges past Wall Street gurus. Jim McTague, Former Washington Editor of Barron's.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/may-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-economy-growth-2023-65ae1e96?mod=hp_lead_pos2

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0:00.0

This is CBS.

0:04.3

I am the world.

0:05.3

I'm John Bachelors.

0:06.3

US employers added 339,000 jobs in May.

0:10.4

Rights to Wall Street Journal.

0:12.0

And the prior two months payrolls were revised up by nearly 100,000.

0:17.0

Adding, complicating the Fed's next decision on rates.

0:21.4

I welcome Jim McTay, my colleague of many years, longtime Washington editor of Barrett's

0:26.6

magazine, Now a Novelist.

0:28.1

He lives in Pennsylvania.

0:29.9

He observes the passing scene of the expectations of our Wall Street smart guys.

0:37.7

And what we had these last hours was a demonstration that we need a new team on Wall Street.

0:43.5

Jim, I know that they said 195,000.

0:48.8

I know that 339,000 has no resemblance to 195.

0:53.6

Will they pay a penalty for being so wrong?

0:56.1

Good evening to you Jim.

0:57.6

Good evening, Sean.

0:59.1

Gee, they were accountants.

1:01.4

They were so far off.

1:04.4

You know, the consensus was 190,000.

1:07.7

The jobs came in at 339, so they missed by 50%.

1:12.1

My analogy is, if they were helping evil, in 1975, compute how fast he would have to go

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