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SHAR. U.S. hiring slowdown signals cooling economy ahead.

Wall Street Journal headline, brilliant headline, every word matters.

Subhead, jobs report shows employers added fewest jobs since June while the unemployment rate

rose. There were also revisions down in the

last two months of job hiring. I welcome Jean Marks. He's a small business

columnist for the Guardian newspaper UK and US Edition, as well as the hometown newspaper of

Philadelphia Inquire.

Jean and I thank the Phillies for another great season and look forward to next year. Gene, the slowdown is welcome by those who have been watching

for signals that the Federal Reserve's hikes

since the spring of 22

are finally challenging the inflation that we're all feeling and succeeding.

The idea was not to force a recession but to come close soft landing and cool the inflation

numbers and allow the Federal Reserve to moderate the interest rates they

15-year or 22-year whatever high of interest rates, they 15 year or 22 year, whatever, high of interest rates.

In general, observing your small business customers and the dialogues you have with small business,

is it working? Are they slowing down or the

orders thinner are they laying people off jean could even if you well nobody's

really laying people off among my small business clients john it is It is a, you know, I'm seeing more with my clients

a general tapering off of orders and activity.

And I don't see them with the big demand, the big motivation too higher.

I mean, it was really a year or two years ago where everywhere I went, I would talk to my clients

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