December jobs report: more signs of real tightness, while new jobs added are (seasonally?) disappointing There were three big questions I had going into this jobs report: 1. whether the big decrease in new jobless claims to a half-century low would translate to another big top-line number in the jobs report2. is wage growth holding up? Is it accelerating?3. Would last month’s “poor” 210,000 number of new jobs be revised higher? The answers...
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