Catherine Rampell

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159 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Sep

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Marketplace · Job losses reveal a shakier labor market · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

was uh more ephemeral or dare I say transitory um than than had been thought. matched

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Yeah, I know exactly. matched

But now, you know, it it there is a lot of fragility in the labor market. matched

Uh we we saw some of as you pointed out, we saw some of those uh prior job gains revised downward in addition to the net job losses that we had in July. matched

So all of that suggests that the Fed cannot just take a solid job market or maximum employment or or or whatever, you know, metric whatever uh type matched

title you want to use for granted, they're gonna have to start worrying about it. matched

Um and I don't think it necessarily means that they're gonna cut rates anytime soon. matched

Markets certainly don't seem to think that, but it it may make them a little bit more um hesitant to cut rates quite as quickly as markets had been expecting just a few days ago. matched

Ooh boy. matched

Okay, so this bill is ostensibly intended to uh punish Russia. matched

To the the literally sanctioning Russia is in the name of it. matched

However, it actually does relatively little in terms of sanctions. matched

Uh it doesn't give the president any additional authority to sanction that he doesn't already have and has chosen not to use. matched

It does, on the other hand, matched

And vastly expand his ability to levy new tariffs. matched

New widespread, enormous tariffs on uh potentially any country that he wants. matched

It's supposed to be, you know, only the countries that are buying uh oil and natural gas from Russia or somehow uh facilitating sanctions evasion, but it's written so vaguely that it basically matched

Allows the president to levy 100% tariffs in perpetuity on virtually any country that he wants. matched

And so yeah, it's it's pretty problematic. matched

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