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Question #2 for 2024: How much will job growth slow in 2024? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

2) Employment: Through November 2023, the economy added 2.6 Or will the economy lose jobs? The bad news - for job growth - is that a combination of a slowing economy, demographics and a labor market near full employment suggests fewer jobs will be added in 2024. Or will the economy lose jobs? million jobs in 2023.

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MiB: Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity

The Big Picture

A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. economy, but American society as a whole. This week, we speak with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit.

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Question #2 for 2023: How much will job growth slow in 2023? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

2) Employment: The economy added 4.5 Or will the economy lose jobs? If the Fed drives the economy into recession (to cool inflation), then we could see job losses in 2023. Or will the economy lose jobs? I'm adding some thoughts, and maybe some predictions for each question. million jobs in 2022.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

If anything, it feels like the Fed wants to fight us, all of us, including the stock market and the economy. The Fed is actively trying to crash the stock market, break the housing market and push the economy into a recession. That’s not the case anymore. How do I know this? Wealth of Common Sense ). • Investors Keep Piling In Anyway.

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Tuesday links: stressed startups

Abnormal Returns

on.ft.com) A visualization of the largest public companies by market cap from 2002-2022. npr.org) Global Nobody really knows how fast China's economy is growing, but it is slowing. nytimes.com) Economy Homebuyer traffic is in free fall. variety.com) Attrition costs Amazon ($AMZN) a pretty penny ever year.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

A downturn in the market doesn’t always precede a downturn in the economy. The Atlantic ). • “Thank You, and Goodbye” On October 30, 2002, a cancer-stricken Warren Zevon returned to the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ stage for one last performance. My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Is the Stock Market Gaslighting Us?

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Observations to Start 2023

The Big Picture

Holding onto expectations of major shifts in key drivers of the markets and the economy – merely due to the changing of the calendar – is a carryover from the days when the calendar mattered much more. Alas, utterly nothing. Given all that, perhaps the 20% equity drawdown is less significant than many believe. • March Magic or March Madness?

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