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First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!

Afford Anything by Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Aug 7, 202656:59Business

: The U.S. just lost 23,000 jobs — and unemployment fell anyway. The numbers were strange enough that Paula broke a years-long, all-stocks habit and bought her first bond, ever. In this month's First Friday economic roun...

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