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The TRUTH About the Jobs Report
Published 6 months ago
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i
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Cue the victory laps: “115,000 jobs added!” “Economy stronger than expected!” “Everything is awesome!”
Sorry — not buying it. The headline number is only one piece of the story, and once you dig underneath the surface, this jobs report starts looking a whole lot weaker.
In this episode, we break down:
• Why headline payroll numbers never tell the full story
• How prior months were quietly revised lower — again
• Why actual employment fell even while payrolls supposedly rose
• The bizarre “birth-death model” adding 391,000 phantom spreadsheet jobs
• Why full-time employment collapsed while part-time jobs surged
• How DoorDash-style delivery work inflated the transportation numbers
• Why tech employment continues to get hammered
And the most alarming trend of all: labor’s shrinking share of economic output.
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i
WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:
https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
Cue the victory laps: “115,000 jobs added!” “Economy stronger than expected!” “Everything is awesome!”
Sorry — not buying it. The headline number is only one piece of the story, and once you dig underneath the surface, this jobs report starts looking a whole lot weaker.
In this episode, we break down:
• Why headline payroll numbers never tell the full story
• How prior months were quietly revised lower — again
• Why actual employment fell even while payrolls supposedly rose
• The bizarre “birth-death model” adding 391,000 phantom spreadsheet jobs
• Why full-time employment collapsed while part-time jobs surged
• How DoorDash-style delivery work inflated the transportation numbers
• Why tech employment continues to get hammered
And the most alarming trend of all: labor’s shrinking share of economic output.