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The John Batchelor Show

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Jobs surge: where is the recession?@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Jobs surge: where is the recession?@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-express-ceo-we-arent-seeing-recessionary-signals-124955798.html


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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:04.0

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0:10.0

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0:13.0

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0:18.0

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0:22.0

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0:27.0

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0:57.0

The labor market reports Bloomberg.

1:01.0

Blue expectations out of the water, sending financial assets

1:05.0

understandably lower.

1:07.0

Headline payrolls rose by a whopping 517,000 earnings growth was in line at 0.3%.

1:14.0

The unemployment rate was reported at a cyclical low 3.4%,

1:18.0

though it's noted that may be impacted by adjustments to the population estimate.

1:23.0

The headline payroll number was way, way above the highest estimate in the Bloomberg panel.

1:29.0

Needless to say, everybody is both smiling and shaking their heads.

1:34.0

Gene Marx is in London and reporting on the European markets is profoundly different than reporting on the US markets,

1:41.0

but everybody's paying attention to this.

1:43.0

Gene were hiring, were filling the jobs available, were doing extremely well,

1:50.0

and unemployment is dipping.

1:53.0

It's a very strange recession. Good day to you, Gene.

1:56.0

John, how are you?

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