Justin Lahart
speaker
135 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Justin Lahart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, the other problem that the AI build out is causing here is a PR problem, maybe political problem, too.
If people are seeing prices go up for certain items, you think, oh, my God, you know, that's AI making prices go up.
And in the meantime, people are worried that AI is going to take their jobs away.
Right.
So a business that on the one hand is raising prices.
and on the other hand is threatening your job, that's not a business that you're real jazzed about.
Yeah, a couple of things happened.
There was a strike at Kaiser Permanente, and that did knock several thousand jobs off of health care employment.
Also, there was a really outsized gain in health care in January.
So some of this was a give back to that.
And some people think that the data may just be a little more volatile than it used to be.
But, you know, overall, this is a very weak report.
Construction shedding jobs, manufacturing shedding jobs, information shedding jobs, leisure and hospitality shedding.
I mean, it was really, you know, just not a good report at all.
Yeah, I mean, so the unemployment rate, it went up to 4.4%.
That's still relatively low.
One thing that's going on here is that we don't really have like a strong sense of how many jobs the economy needs to add each month to keep unemployment rates steady anymore.
And that's because with immigration restrictions, the population just isn't growing like it used to, especially the working age population.
So you may just not need to create as many jobs to keep up with population growth as we did before.
This month's Fed meeting, you wouldn't really expect to see any action on interest rates.
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