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Renaissance Macro head of econ research on CNBC; 50-60K/month average with unemployment still edging down means negative prints are a statistical artifact, not recession.
Well I mean I think for me as a Fed watcher all it really does is reinforce the notion that they had to begin the year which is that the break-even level you know the number of jobs you need every month to hold the unemployment rate flat that number is going down
Bear
ARK ITK, her own show; reports the July payroll miss as a weak print worth attention.
is the increase or decrease in non-farm payroll employment, was minus 23,000. Expectation was for plus 80,000. And perhaps more important
Neutral
ARK ITK; average hourly earnings +0.1% vs +0.3% expected.
report was average hourly earnings, up only 0.1 percent.
Neutral
Clip within Bloomberg Businessweek segment; falling participation cut the break-even payroll number to ~40K, so weak prints no longer mean weakness.
And labor force participation is kind of on a downward trajectory, which means that the break-even jobs number, that is the jobs number you need so the unemployment rate doesn't go up, has gone from maybe 120, 130,000 a few years ago to maybe about 40,000 now.
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