[nodesocket]

We can start with this reading. Average monthly job growth dropped from 147,000 initially to just over 70,000 a reduction of approximately 52% from their data. This at precisely when the Fed needed to start cuts when the administration has been aggressively hammering them. Hopefully the Fed is not too late this time, and their 6+ month delay cutting won't result in a recession or serious economic impact.

[yepitwas]

I expect they're correctly hesitant to cut rates at the same time as the president pursues inflationary policies, since that'd be courting stagflation, which was so bad last time it happened that it was one of the main factors that defined our politics for the following three decades.

[estearum]

Yes, as Powell has said pretty explicitly. If not for stupid inflationary policies, probably would've already been in cut territory.

[blackbear_]

> dropped from 147,000 initially to just over 70,000

That is well within the confidence intervals published along with the numbers and entirely unsurprising to anybody who is really paying attention.

> reduction of approximately 52% from their data

And of 0.04% of the actual number of employed people. Seems to me way too thin of a margin to get so worked up.

[mempko]

You model about what the Fed does and how rates affect the economy is just wrong. The fed raising or lowering rates won't change what's happening with jobs. You have to explain why when the fed raised rates, the market shot up and unemployment dropped. But you can't with the model you have.

[matwood]

The fed was cutting rates and on track to continue until Trump threw a tariff grenade into the economy. They, like most businesses, decided they needed to see how the idiotic economic policy played out before doing anything else.