Moody’s warns U.S. job growth has stalled as the shutdown halts official labor data, forcing Wall Street and the Fed to rely on patchy private reports.
The job market is weak and getting weaker, top economists says, while Trump looks to the future
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The most troubling feature of the job market is how thinly spread gains are, top economist says — ‘this only happens when the economy is in recession’
"Since the beginning of the year, the economy has created a paltry 600k jobs, but without the job growth in these industries,…
Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, tells Fortune parts of America are already in recession, with 22 state economies contracting…
Pessimism is "most pronounced for those with at most a high school education," according to the New York Federal Reserve.
"Hopefully things will be OK, but you do see that kind of weakening," he said.
Payroll growth for November came in at a modest 64,000. “There’s just no forward motion,” Moody’s chief economist told Fortune.
"Central to our view," Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson argues, "is the notion that the economy has been much weaker" than the…
