Kevin Hassett
speaker
150 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Aug
Kevin Hassett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Has Disaster Sunday as Iran Won't Let Him Leave! · 9 Aug 2026
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As an example, uh there are eighty-three thousand construction workers building factories right now.
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That's a number that we've never seen before.
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Initial claims for unemployment insurance are the lowest they've been since World War Two.
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There are more job openings than there are unemployed workers.
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So all these things that suggested the numbers should have been really strong.
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And when it didn't come out strong, we sort of dug in and we saw that the two things
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That made it uh negative.
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One of them was a reduction in government workers, and it was mostly uh teachers at states at states, you know, taking July off.
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Uh and the other thing was that uh the FIFA ended, and so that we had a whole bunch of hospitality workers uh you know file for unemployment uh in July.
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And and so, anyway, so you take those two out and you get back to what the consensus number was about a hundred thousand job creation.
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And the point is if that were a
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in isolation I wouldn't be caring about caring about like throwing this or that uh uh on the side 'cause it's a special story.
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But the fact is everything else is so strong that I think that it makes sense that the consensus was about right.
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Twenty three thousand jobs lost in the month of July.
Louie, you wanted a week report, you got it.
Was this two weeks?
Yep.
And we also have revisions actually for June and other revisions.
Uh Lauren, did you have those numbers?
Yeah.
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