Kevin Hassett

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239 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 19 Apr

Kevin Hassett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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One would be fertilizer.
Another would be helium, which is needed for the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.
You said you have a plan.
What is that plan to make sure that we are getting fertilizer to the proper places that it's needed?
Because you can't get the fertilizer there late if you need to plant the crops.
And that would be available for U.S.
farmers or available throughout the world?
How does it work and what's the timeframe?
Kevin Hassett, thank you for joining us this morning, Kevin.
We appreciate your time.
Well, I think, you know, Jim's right that there have been so many strong indicators this month that it's something of a surprise.
But there are some weather, there are strikes on the West Coast.
And I think that we also have this birth death model, the change in the procedure at the BLS.
And so I think what we need to start doing with these jobs numbers, at least on the payroll side, is take the average over a few months.
And if you take the average over a few months, we had a surprisingly positive one last month and a surprisingly negative one this one.
But on average,
It's about what we expect to be seeing because immigration has gone down by so much that break-even employment is probably in the sort of 30 or 40,000 jobs a month range.
And so, yeah, I think it's consistent with everything else we're seeing, which is that the economy is really strong.
You know, it's interesting because a lot of the president, President Trump's critics try to tie him to this whole thing.
And all I've seen were really Democrats who potentially had correspondence or ties like, you know, Larry Summers or the the Obama legal counsel, Catherine Rumler, who also worked at Goldman Sachs or, as you say, some of the others, the Clintons.
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