What’s really going on in the US jobs market?

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Roger Hearing looks at how the Federal Reserve has left the United States interest rates unchanged and steady for the first time in more than a year. However, its latest economic forecast suggest that more rate hikes lie ahead.

Half of workers aren’t engaged on the job, ...

On this podcast we keep trying to make sense out of this economy. It is confusing and there are numerous contradictory signals. 

On today’s show we are taking a look at why there appears to be a labor shortage. We keep hearing about the so-called labor shortage and poli ...

The latest economic figures are some of the best of President Biden’s tenure so far. It appears increasingly likely that the United States has managed to tame high inflation without causing a recession.

Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy for The Times, discusses ...

You can't make this stuff up. On today's show we are taking a deeper look at the incredibly strong January jobs report that 517,000 jobs were created in the month of January in the US. 

The report was at odds with the daily reports of layoffs in multiple industries ...