Joe Lynam

The latest jobs data from the CSO was out yesterday.

It was a little bit worrying, though, wasn't it?

Now, the Americans also had their jobs data out as well.

What did we learn there?

Now, let's move back across the Atlantic to us.

The ESRI reckons that we will have fairly robust domestic growth or NDD, modified domestic demand this year.

Yeah.

And just to remind listeners that modified domestic demand kind of strips out the very volatile transfer payments that goes on from the multinationals back home.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

And we'll leave it there as we've done a fair bit of economics today.

Austin, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Enjoy yourself.

And we will speak to you again very soon.

That is the economist Austin Hughes.

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