logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2024
29m 19s

Jobs Report Off By 800K!? & Ford’s $1.9B...

Morning Brew
About this episode
Episode 393: Neal and Toby discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ anticipated revision which removed 800,000 jobs from last year’s jobs report. The largest in the last 15 years. Then, the FTC’s plan to ban noncompete agreements in the US has run into a roadblock as a federal judge says, not so fast. Next, Ford once pledged to make big investments in all-ele ... Show More
Up next
Yesterday
Canada Wants to Link Up with the EU & America Reveals its Space Weapon
#934: Canadian PM Mark Carney seeks a special relationship with the EU as it shuns the US, according to reports. Despite numerous proposals, Congress can’t agree on any substantial AI regulation. The US military confirms they’ve launched weapons into space. An African billionaire ... Show More
34m 39s
Sep 15
EPA Lifts Emissions Limits on Power Plants & Hyrox Finds Itself in a Stinky Situation
#933: The EPA removes a rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by power plants. AI stocks are feeling the effects of leaders uniting and calling for the slowdown of AI progress. Ten-year treasury yields hit 5% for the first time since 2023. Malls are making a co ... Show More
31m 44s
Sep 14
AI Leaders Agree to Slow Things Down & Tesla Makes a Surprising Comeback
#932: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman agree on the need to slow AI’s development. Drone attacks in the Middle East caused Saudi Arabia to shut down the East-West oil pipeline. Tesla reclaims supremacy in the EV market as it claws back a dominant market share. Ame ... Show More
29m 9s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2025
The mystery of the vanishing jobs
The annual jobs numbers are in. And they have been revised down by 911,000 positions. But in a quickly changing economy, with many laborers literally leaving the country, what does that mean? Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter discuss the new landscape of employmen ... Show More
20m 44s
Jan 2024
Ford Cuts Workforce Making Electric F-150s on Weak Demand
Bloomberg News Auto Reporter Keith Naughton discusses Ford announcing it will reduce the number of workers making its F-150 Lightning truck as demand for electric vehicles continues to weaken. Maureen O’Brien, Senior VP of Corporate Governance at Segal Marco, explains the emergin ... Show More
44m 42s
Dec 2016
P&L: Training for Modern Jobs Is the Answer to Wage Stagnation
Pimm Fox and Lisa Abramowicz talk to Chris Lu, deputy secretary for the Department of Labor, about the November jobs report. Then, Global Markets' Peter Kenny discusses why the infrastructure sector is overbought. Also, Algebris Investments' Alberto Gallo talks about the ECB and ... Show More
26m 4s
May 2024
Hire Power (Update)
(Note: This episode originally ran in 2021.)Millions of American workers in all sorts of industries have signed some form of noncompete agreement. Their pervasiveness has led to situations where workers looking to change jobs can be locked out of their fields.On today's episode: ... Show More
22m 57s
Sep 2021
U.S. Hiring Downshifted Abruptly in August
Becky Frankiewicz, President at ManpowerGroup, discusses the August jobs report miss as a result of the delta variant. Bloomberg News Senate Reporter Steven Dennis talks about Senate Democrats discussing a wider range of tax proposals including levies on stock buybacks, carbon em ... Show More
39m 49s
Apr 2024
Big Tech investors question AI pay-off
<p>Financial companies scramble to rework contracts after US Federal Trade Commission rule bans non-compete agreements, the largest western banks that remain in Russia paid the Kremlin hundreds of millions of euros in taxes last year, and Turkey is in talks with the US energy sup ... Show More
11m 35s
Listen to millions of songs and podcasts on Anghami