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Is the Jobs Report Hiding Economic Weakness?

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Economic Dumorism Isn't Just Politics

A recession feels supremely irrelevant to me relative to trying to understand what's actually happening in the economy. Economic dumorism is one of the most popular niches for people who want to build a career, or at least a following, doing economic commentary. They're not telling us the truth, always an extremely popular thing to argue on social media. I think that it's all about the actual c p i number and jobs right now are ultimately a very, very secondary consideration.

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