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
Oct 30
DoorDash Plans To Buy Instacart for $17B & Ahh!! Horror Bookstores Are Killing It
#966: DoorDash acquires Instacart for a whopping $17 billion, creating a food delivery giant. America’s GDP is like the Golden State Warriors with an impressive third quarter performance, growing at the fastest pace in a year. Weil Gotshal, a once heavyweight law firm, is shuttin ... Show More
30m 45s
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
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
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