American employers added 157,000 jobs in January compared with a revised 196,000 jobs the previous month, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The unemployment rate was little changed at 7.9 percent, about where it has been stuck since September.
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This is supposed to be good news. It follows on more good news -- our negative growth rate of -1% in the Q4 data. I'm not sure what is going one here, but I must say it's troubling. Maybe next quarter things will slip a little more and we'll get even more good news. I had thought the talk about the new normal was just talk. But now I'm beginning to wonder. --ts
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