RT Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion)“If we do have an increase in the unemployment rate, it does lend some credence that Powell has not been aggressive enough,” @AllisonSchrager says. “He’ll be in sort of a bind.”Watch here: https://t.co/B7IKkJddbd ...

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 ...

Chair Powell, there's been some discussion recently of the 1990s. In the 1990s, the committee did two discrete sequences of three quarter point cuts. One in 199596 and one in 1998.And after both of those, the next move in rates was up, not down. With policy now closer to neutral, is it a foregone conclusion that the next move in rates is down or should we think of policy risks as genuinely two-sided from here. >> So, I don't think that um a a rate hike is anybody's base as the next thing is anybody's base c ...

IN YIELD, MAYBE THAT DOES LOOSEN THINGS UP A LITTLE BIT. ALTHOUGH I WASN'T PARTICULARLY ALARMED AT THE LEVEL THAT LONG TERM YIELDS HAD GOTTEN TO IN THIS RUN. >> ALL RIGHT, MICHAEL SANTOLI, MICHAEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT.LET'S GO BACNOW TO OUR PANEL. WE GOT JIM FRANCIS AND DAVID FRANCIS, I WANT TO GO TO YOU BECAUSE LET'S TALK ABOUT THE JOB MARKET. AND I'M GOING TO COMPARE THE LAST MEETING MINUTES AND YOU'LL FORGIVE ME I GOT TO LOOK DOWN AND READ IT.HERE'S WHAT THEY SAID AT THE LAST MEETING MINUTES A ...