A big beat, led by the reopening-sensitive leisure sector even in a frigid winter.
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Friday, February 5, 2021
A miss, but the real story is that labor market is basically unchanged -- frozen in the "dark winter" of Covid before the coming boom.
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Friday, January 8, 2021
A catastrophe in the lockdown-sensitive leisure sector. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...
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Friday, December 4, 2020
A miss versus consensus, with the recovery-critical retail sector shedding jobs.
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Friday, November 6, 2020
A nice beat on top of upward revisions to prior months. Long live the V.
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Friday, October 2, 2020
Hard to grasp but it's true -- a blockbuster jobs number like 661,000 payrolls actually means the jobs market cooled down a bit.
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Friday, September 4, 2020
Labor market metrics mostly look like mid-2012 at this point -- three years of recovery in three months.
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Friday, August 7, 2020
A headline beat, but mixed internals. Job-finding probability falls, separation probability rises -- both slight, but should be the other direction.
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Friday, June 5, 2020
OK, the data's a little crazy. But we told you -- here comes the V-shaped recovery.