Sam Unstead

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Merryn Talks Money · Price Controls, Britain's Struggling Jobs Market, and the SpaceX IPO · 22 May 2026 podcast

Yes.

Let's take it chronologically.

Right.

So over the course of the week, we had jobs days at first.

Right.

Pretty bad.

It was pretty much pretty much across the boards.

Quite a lot of jobs being lost.

So I'm not always a bit sceptical about the payroll employees.

number because it's it's very very uh prone to revision but it was very high it's like a hundred thousand so pretty significant and there's a couple of other areas of it that are that are very soft so vacancies have fallen a lot and they're getting hit at kind of both ends of the income spectrum so you're seeing entry-level jobs so the retail sector for example vacancies are falling loads there so for that's for kind of the lower income you know entry-level gigs there and that's where costs have been driving up a lot in the past yeah exactly yeah which

And then at the other end of it, AI, you know, the other sector where vacancies are going down is in IT.

So at both ends of here, you're seeing these kind of squeezes happen.

Second jobs, hours worked in second jobs is a joint record high.

So all these kind of worrying signs starting to come through that things are looking a bit softer in the jobs market.

Yeah.

I mean, that is the sector, if you're going to pick one out, that is going to be immediately impacted by what's going on around the rest of the world.

Because the transport costs are going up, and we can go on as well to inflation, which is the next report we got over the course of the week.

You're seeing this come through.

So the inflation report is a bit weird, right?

Because there were so many base effects and distortions in it that the headline rate goes down, but it's not really telling you the true story of what's going on.

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