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[137] Job Numbers are Looking Up & Ann Pettifor on Euro Politics

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Our lead story: According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, US employers kept up a solid pace of hiring, returning employment number to pre-recession levels. Many believe this is confirmation that the economy has snapped back from its winter slump! Erin takes a look at the numbers. Yesterday, the European Central Bank announced some ...

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Our lead story: According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, US employers kept up a solid pace of hiring, returning employment number to pre-recession levels. Many believe this is confirmation that the economy has snapped back from its winter slump! Erin takes a look at the numbers.



Yesterday, the European Central Bank announced some historic measures to try to inject liquidity into the Eurozone. At the same time, Euro-skeptics have made political gains recently. So Erin talked with Dr. Ann Pettifor to get a sense of how these tensions are playing out.



Then we play the Best of the Best for this week. We play our favorite clips from Pippa Malmgren, Thomas Palley, Tim Duy, Ladar Levison, and Jim Rogers.



We end the week with our weekly Accrued Interest. Keep those questions coming!



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Ann Pettifor
I’m Ann Pettifor, author and analyst of the global financial system, and co-author of The Green New Deal (2008). I predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis back in 2003, and in September, 2006 published The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave). I am known for my work on the sovereign debts of low income countries and for leading an international movement for the cancellation of debts, Jubilee 2000.

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