Robert Brusca
Robert Brusca
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We've still got a lot of job growth, but it's not pressuring the unemployment rate, ... That's a critical thing for the Fed -- between the unemployment rate and the nice average hourly earnings rate figure, which was up only a penny, I think the Federal Reserve will breathe pretty easily with this report.
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We continue to see Federal Reserve officials saying they want the economy to grow as fast as it can, but they're the ones who determine where that speed limit is.
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The Federal Reserve has talked about the economy being in a soft spot -- well, it's really in a soft spot.
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It means we sort of dodged another bullet on the inflation front. These kinds of numbers put the Federal Reserve in a difficult box. We don't have inflation, the economy is growing too fast, they are afraid it won't keep up, but it's hard for them to raise rates without any inflation on the doorstep.
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Everybody knows what the Fed is doing, but no one knows which move is going to impact the market. I call it a version of Federal Reserve water torture: a drop at a time and after a while it will drive you absolutely batty.
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This refunding went really poorly. People still have nagging concerns,
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This really muddies the waters on jobs, ... I continue to see a lot of labor market distress, and I am more impressed by the sudden weakness in the Challenger report than by the rebound in the cantankerous ISM.
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This shows the Fed rate cut was really quite needed, ... and would probably suggest the Fed might have more work to do to hold things together.
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When you get abnormally warm weather, the seasonal factor will blow this up into a big gain. Once we lose this weather effect, we'll see how much of an employment gain we get.
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We knew jobs were front-end loaded because of the weather. Even so, this is dramatic.
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To me, the concern right now is that holiday shopping has been spotty . We had a great Black Friday , the week after that was miserable and then sales ticked up again after that,
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The problem, ... is that the markets have fallen sharply and they've fallen because all these financial shenanigans are coming unraveled.
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There are rates that may not move at all and there are rates that may move opposite to what the Fed has done.
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Those two things could come into collision, and cause you to get faster hiring in the first part of the year, then have it catches up with you later,