Stacey Vanek-Smith
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7 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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the worry is because obviously the marketsk did not like Warsh's speech, and I've I've heard most of the people I have spoken with of all political persuasions and different jobs did were quite critical of it.
Are is do you think the worry is that he seemed to be hedging too much like
Someone told me they that he seemed to not understand the link between inflation and interest rates.
Um, and then someone else said it just seemed like he was
Kind of saying
Or seeming to indicate that he was not necessarily gonna do what was right for the economy.
He might do what was right for his career.
And there was a lot of suspicion around that.
As there has been since his appointment, there's a lot of worry.
Is he you know, is he gonna safeguard Fed independence or is he gonna do just what the president wants?
Yes.
The labor market, this is very interesting.
So um unemployment ticked down a little bit.
But there was also a seeming like flashing red signal that labor force participation is down, meaning
that the unemployment rate might be down because people are just giving up dropping out of the workforce for various reasons.
A lot of the people dropping out of the workforce are women, which could indicate that maybe because of lack of working from home or the rising price of childcare.
are dropping out of the workforce.
Maybe not that they want to leave the workforce, but that they feel like they have to or financially pressured to.
At the same time, not only did the economy not add jobs in June, it lost like tens of thousands of jobs, which is
I was really concerned when I saw this, but what about you, Justin?
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