Why The Stock Market Hated May’s Strong Jobs Report | Off the Clock
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The work week may be over, but the economy, it never really takes time off. I'm Justin Wolfers, and I want to welcome you to Off the Clock, the show where we're going to unwind the week's economic news. And I am joined again by my favorite economics journalist in the whole wide world, Stacey Bannock-Smith. overwhelmed by this honor, Justin. Thank you. I'm very happy to be here. I am a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of their podcast, Everybody's Business, and thrilled, as always, to talk economics with you, Justin. Mate, highlight of my week. So as always, our job is going to be to pick through the week's headlines, and we want to figure out where there are things you should really be concerned.
There's a whole bunch of stuff I'm pretty sure you can safely ignore, and we're going to be Really digging in and see if we can find a silver lining somewhere, right? The first thing we're going to talk about is the jobs numbers. They came in for May and they're looking really good. And second month in a row. So we're going to talk about that. It's been exciting for me. I've been doing television all day, and I've been such a grumpy bloke when I had to talk about the economy. And I have gotten to walk in with a big smile and say, God bless the labor market, and it's good to see American workers getting ahead. We're going to move on from that. That's going to be the first part. And then we're going to get to what doesn't sound like an economic story, but I think might be the most important economic story of all.
There are a whole lot of musical acts that were meant to perform in America 250, the big celebration. They've all cancelled. Now, you might wonder what that's got to do with the future of the American economy. And I think actually it's a symptom of the state of capitalism. What we're going to do is we're going to compare what's going on with the musicians, with what's going on with the tech sector, and see if that tells us something about where the economy is going. And then, Stacey, we're going to close out with a new segment called that comes straight from your big brains. And we're going to step back. We're going to look at some of the bigger trends in economics. Too much of the news focuses on the right now.
We're going to look back and we'll discover that once we look outside the daily grind, there's a lot more cause for optimism. Mate, are you ready to get into it? I'm ready to do it. Okay. First thing we got to talk about is apparently the thing you've been talking about all day, but it's a really exciting development. It's the jobs numbers for May. They came out 172,000 jobs created in May in those four weeks. And April jobs were revised upwards. They revised them every month to 179,000. This is Justin. I have so many questions about this, but I would just love your overall take. Honestly, I love days like this. I wake up, I learn some statistics, and my heart soars a little bit because people are seeing a better world than they otherwise were.
So let's try and get some context around this. About four or five months ago, the question was whether the U.S.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:17
2
What does May’s jobs report actually show and why does it matter?
7:17–24:06
3
Which industries and demographics are driving recent job growth?
24:06–41:59
4
Why are women capturing most of the new jobs and what does 'pink‑collar' growth mean?
41:59–1:00:44
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