• Does unemployment whiplash mean recession?

  • Oct 4 2024
  • Length: 9 mins
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Does unemployment whiplash mean recession?

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  • It's Jobs Friday! It's that time of the month where we check in on the American worker.

    In September, 254,000 jobs were added to the US economy and the unemployment rate ticked down very slightly to 4.1%. It's unexpectedly strong, and relieving news for workers after a pretty lackluster summer.

    But ... given how the labor market cooled over summer, is the labor market still on thin ice? And if there were to be a plummet in jobs, could anything be done to speed up the recovery?

    Today on the show: How it's easier to break the economy than to fix it, and whether we can escape from the patterns of the past.

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