Do they even bother with publishing the great news of ONLY 350,000 jobs lost every Thursday anymore?
That’s not the way it works... There are hundreds of thousands of people hired and fired all the time (employment churn). The NFP number is the “net” of the hirings and firings for the month. This month was +157K, both November and December were revised upward sharply. The economy is not “strong” but it is improving. Unfortunately a lot of people here just simply don’t want to see it.