Canada Pulls US Liquor From Shelves & Can Fries Save Sweetgreen?
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Good morning for your daily show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, the first jobs report is being released since Doge began its drive to slash the federal workforce.
Then a Jack and Coke in Canada is now just a Coke after Jack Daniels got caught in trade war crossfire. It's Friday, March 7th. Let's ride.
It's going to be the last Friday you try to beat the darkness when leaving work because daylight saving time starts this weekend at 2 a.m. On Sunday, clocks will spring forward, which means you will lose an hour of sleep, but also gain an extra hour of daylight in the evenings. For instance, here in New York City, the sun will set tonight at 555 p.m., but on Sunday it'll set at 657 p.m. This is absolutely huge for lazy people like me who held out strong on changing their microwave clock since daylight saving time ended in November. I've been living an hour ahead of you all for months, but soon we'll be synced up again.
Living in the future. I was making a little pros and cons list to figure out how I felt about daylight savings time because I always get confused. For the pros, it's good for golf, great for evening picnics, great for people who never change their clocks. For cons, it's very bad for parents taking their kids to school in the morning, also tough for morning people in general. So if your job is hosting a morning business news podcast, maybe not so great. So after weighing all of that, I realized I have no strong feelings, and thank goodness for auto-updating clocks. Now a word from our sponsor, Invesco QQQ. Neil, I've been thinking about efficiency lately. Oh, finally getting to inbox zero, are we?
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Why is the jobs report significant this month?
It's finally here at long last, the next Game of Thrones book. No, just kidding. It's the monthly jobs report due out this morning at 8.30 a.m. Eastern, giving us a key snapshot of America's employment situation in February. And while all jobs reports are big deals, this This one feels like a big freaking deal for a few reasons. First, it is the first jobs report since President Trump and Doge have taken a chainsaw to the federal workforce in a bid to slash the size of the federal government. Second, a slew of recent surveys have raised alarms over slowing economic growth, prompting investors and analysts to up their bets on an upcoming recession and sell off stocks. The jobs report is one of the first pieces of hard data that could calm those fears or jack them up even more. The hints we've been getting have not been pretty. In February, U.S. job cuts hit their highest level in almost five years, according to an analysis released yesterday from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Layoffs were up 245% from January and marked the highest total for the month of February since 2009. The firm said that more than one-third of the total layoffs were attributed to the headcount reduction efforts of Doge, totaling 62,000 job cuts across 17 agencies.
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What are the key topics covered in this episode?
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Why is the jobs report significant this month?
2:39–7:28
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How is Canada responding to U.S. tariffs?
7:28–11:06
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What challenges did Intuitive Machines face during their moon landing?
11:06–14:44
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How does the design of lunar landers affect their success?
14:44–27:20
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