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2025-05-03 00:25:57 UTC

Spin D'Accord on Nostr: April jobs report: 177K new jobs added, unemployment rate stays at 4.2%. Does this ...

April jobs report: 177K new jobs added, unemployment rate stays at 4.2%.

Does this show the economy is doing fine? No. As I mentioned a month ago, we might actually, at least initially, hit a recession without job losses. That sounds like an oxymoron, but the post-COVID Beveridge Curve has flattened. Nov '21 and Mar '25 have the same unemployment rate (4.2%) but Nov '21 job vacancies rate was 6.9% while Mar '25 is 4.3%.

What this suggests is, demand still exceeds supply.

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