Kai Risdahl

You got your rock, you got your hard place, you got this economy pretty much stuck right in the middle.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl.

It is Friday today.

This one is the 6th of March.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

Just to be completely clear here, the rock is inflation higher than we want and most assuredly going higher in no small part because war is inflationary.

The hard place is the labor market, which we learned today, well, is a bit more challenged than we all had probably thought.

The economy is

Well, that's us.

And it's where we're going to start today.

Sudeep Reddy is at MSNOW.

Courtney Brown is at Axios.

Hey, you two.

Courtney, you get to go first.

Jobs, we lost 92,000 of them.

Unemployment rate ticked up.

I would like you to discuss for me in the next 45 seconds what you make of that given, oh, everything.

Wait, like we learned earlier in the week from ADP.

and other private sector data that maybe the labor market was on better footing.