Let's talk about the U.S. labor market right now. We have had some numbers now indicating some softening over the last two or three months, actually. How concerned are you, or should we be.-Well, actually, we've had softening over even the past year. If you look at the number of jobs created on average, it was substantially lower last year than in the previous several years. How concerned should we be. We should be somewhat concerned.It's not a great thing, obviously, to have the unemployment rate going up, ...

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For more on the economy ahead of the jobs number tomorrow, let's bring in Evercore ISI vice chairman Krishna Guha. Krishna also the head of economics and central bank strategy at Everore. Krishna, it's great to have you back.Thanks for the time. >> Anytime. >> Um the range on tomorrow's numbers kind of wide.There's actually a couple calls for a negative print. I wonder if the revisions might be. Do you think do you think there's risk tomorrow.So, this is uh one of the numbers where estimates are all over th ...

Kevin Warsh, a former bank executive and Fed Governor during George W. Bush’s presidency, is set to take over from Jay Powell when he leaves t the seat in May, pending confirmation in the Senate. On the heels of Trump's announce I spoke with Fed Governor Stephen Miran who might find a like minded colleague in the new Fed chair.Chairman Designate Warsh has a long and illustrious career and history as a very insightful thinker on monetary policy. I think he's a fantastic pick from the president. I think he's ...

Despite a possible brightening of economic prospects, there is still a way to go before growth is fast enough to make a serious dent in the country’s unemployment rate https://t.co/PQaxU7nFqN ...

Let's bring in Julia Coronado. She's the founder of Macropolicy Perspectives. Julia, it's great to see you and and feel free to layer in your own thoughts about the consumer confidence number on top of all this.>> Yeah, absolutely. So, the conference board is extremely valuable for exactly what you pointed out, assessments of labor market conditions. Um, we've got a long history.It's got a pretty reliable track record mapping into actual labor market data. So, while I agree with Steve, the the confidence do ...

Welcome to the Brainstorm episode 116. We're very lucky we have Kathy here today because over the weekend, you know, there was some crazy news out there with Jerome Pal uh getting subpoenaed from the DOJ threatening criminal indictment. This seems like it's, you know, recently there's been a long line of issues and uh I'd say macroeconomic initiatives from Trump from no institutional investors being able to buy single family housing, a cap on credit card interest.So Nick, maybe you'll touch on that later. U ...

the unemployment rate ticking up for a fourth straight month to 4.6%. Joining me now, Muhammad Alerian, Alian's chief economic advisor. And Muhammad, the listen, I'm having a little bit of trouble with this jobs report.I don't know about you, just in terms of getting that clear picture of what is really going on. >> So, we should really look through this report. >> Okay.>> There are so many distortions and I think Sher Pal was absolutely right when he said we shouldn't take anything out of it. But if you pu ...

US job growth remained sluggish in November and the unemployment rate rose, pointing to a continued cooling in the labor market after a particularly weak October. https://t.co/UQNjcRZhCc ...