Neil Irwin is a senior economics correspondent for The Upshot. He previously wrote for The Washington Post and is the author of “The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire.”
“despite being nine years into an expansion”
Seven of those years of that “expansion” can only be described as anemic.
Finally, a NY Times article that doesn’t mention Trump even once.
Regardless, just before the election they will endorse the democrat candidate, no matter who it is.
People having jobs doesn’t matter to these people. All that matters is that all are “equal.” (equally miserable.)
Actually, there are dozens of words that can adequately describe the Trump jobs report. These include “outstanding, great, superb, excellent, marvelous, magnificent”, etc. It’s just that the NYT can’t bring themselves to using them.
The comments section is hilarious though. Don’t believe your lying eyes!!!
Inflation.
Deflation.
Recession.
Depression.
Trumpflation!
Anecdotally, you can see it around here if you're observant:
(1) more blacks and more "unexpected" (less than perfect) workers in basic jobs.
(2) in restaurants and stores, the diversity of the people spending money
(3) anecdotally: I've gotten some calls from young adults who only need to pass a math test to get a HS diploma that they didn't bother with before. They're seeing opportunities that are now open to them, with a HS diploma.
That's my take, anyway. It's all good. If people get jobs and next step feel confident enough to develop normal relationships with families, a lot of the problems we have as a nation will be less severe.
I’m amazed a paper as dreadful as the New York Times would pick up someone as insightful as Neil Irwin... We can assume they won’t make that mistake twice.
If Ohama hadn't screwed up everything so badly, Trump wouldn't have gotten elected.
Now Trump is repairing all the damage Obama did.
If it weren't for Carter, we never would have gotten Reagan.
If it weren't for Obama, we never would have gotten Trump.
The tax cut changed our entire economy.
And this so called trade war is just another piece of the economy that has to be checked.....unless you like being scr**** year after year.
I guess it really galls him to not be able to give Obama credit. Those "stimulus" packages of Obama's were devastating, and placed needless stress on an economy that was struggling. Now that Trump is taking various pressures off the economy and it is improving, the leftists at NYT apparently just cannot bring themselves to give him credit. Or, by extension, to acknowledge that central government control of the economy can only suppress economic activity.
The “new norm” of a stagnant jobs/economy outlook is yet another of Obama’s legacies that Trump has destroyed...
Let me clean my reading glasses!
ABC World NEWS last night . First two stories were positive President articles.
Meeting with Kim and unemployment numbers.
Had to pinch myself. No ‘But’.