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- Los Angeles Times Opinion
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- People
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- LA Times
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- KIRO
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January proved to be a brutal month for technology company layoffs. A new website, layoffs.fyi, that’s tracking job cuts in the sector, says more than 80,000 jobs were slashed in that month alone.
- Fortune
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- Yahoo Finance Canada
45% with variable mortgages say they would have to sell in under 9 months: Yahoo/Maru poll
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- USA TODAY Opinion
If Democrats fail to negotiate with GOP on debt, it's America's future that's held hostage
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- GOBankingRates
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- MarketWatch
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The number of new jobs created in January rose by 517,000 to mark the biggest increase in six months, suggesting little erosion in a dynamic U.S. labor market even as the economy weakens.
- Reuters
Fed seen hiking policy rate above 5% as job gains surge
The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to need to lift the benchmark rate above 5% and keep it there to squeeze too-high inflation out of an economy where the labor market remains strong even after nearly a year of the most aggressive round of Fed rate hikes in 40 years. That was the betting in financial markets on Friday after the U.S. Labor Department reported employers added more than half a million jobs last month, far more than expected, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest in more than 50 years. That was also how San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly saw it.
- Motley Fool
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- USA TODAY
How Medicare and Social Security benefits factor into the Kevin McCarthy debt ceiling fight
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- The Hill
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- Reuters
Is blowout jobs a headache for the Fed, or a back-to-2019 gift?
A blowout January employment report and continued record numbers of job openings have left the U.S. Federal Reserve with a growing dilemma of whether to take its cue about future inflation from a labor market that seems to remain on fire or take solace in the fact that, at the same time, wage growth continues to cool. The dissonance in the data – continued high demand for workers coupled with some easing in wage inflation – will be a key puzzle for policymakers to resolve as they plot their next interest rate moves. For the Fed, the question is whether the economy can continue from here to the low inflation, low unemployment days seen before the coronavirus struck in 2020, or whether a continued decline in inflation will require a looser labor market and higher joblessness.
- Associated Press
An unexpected job surge confounds the Fed's economic models
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- Barrons.com
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- Barrons.com
Jobs Growth Was Double the Forecast. It’s a Challenge for the Fed.
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