Kyle Risdell

Liederman.

Marketplace's executive producer is Nancy Fargali.

Joanne Griffith is the chief content officer.

Neil Scarborough is the vice president and general manager.

I'm Kyle Risdell.

Have yourselves a great weekend, everybody.

We will see you back here on Monday, all right?

This is APM.

This week on Million Bazillion, Bridget and I learn how scouting works, how teams decide what to pay their star athletes, and why those are important factors in making games fun to watch.

All right, give me a four-letter word for this economy, would you?

Here's mine.

J-O-B-S.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdell.

It is Monday today.

Somehow it is the first of June.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

We are going to learn over the next, what, one, two, three, four days in this economy, a whole lot about the state of the American labor market.

The April jolts will be upon us tomorrow.

That's the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.