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The U.S. economy added 172,000 jobs. So why did the Nasdaq fall 4%?
Questions the market's negative reaction to strong job data, highlighting the disconnect between economic resilience and tech stock sell-offs.
- Strong labor market data reduces the likelihood of aggressive Federal Reserve rate cuts.
- Persistent inflationary pressure from wage growth keeps bond yields elevated, hurting growth valuations.
- Market pricing for a 'soft landing' may be overly optimistic given sticky macro indicators.
Everyone needs to realize the days of
Super low rates are gone for a while
Sad thing is current rates are not particularly high. Fairly normal level compared to recent decades. We were spoiled for a while.
Meh. Idk if spoiled is the right word. Low rates are a double edged sword. When rates are low for long periods, because money is cheaply available, prices of items climb.
The low rates are part of the unaffordability problems. A vehicle shouldnt cost the same as a house did 12 years ago.
Trump administration is clearly a step above the rest. The guy literally had multiple crypto scams running.
You’re proving my point, not disproving it.
Even if we ignore the COVID recovery years entirely and only use Biden’s LAST year in office, Biden averaged 186,000 jobs per month in 2024.
Trump has added only about 475,000 jobs over 17 months, which works out to roughly 28,000 jobs per month. So your own comparison still has Biden creating jobs at over 6 times the rate Trump has.
And nobody is “obfuscating” anything. The actual payroll reports are public.
You can argue COVID inflated Biden’s totals. Which is certainly true to an extent. But even after stripping out the recovery surge, Biden’s job growth still crushes Trump’s so far.
Sooo trump has added 3 months worth of bidens jobs and it only took him 17 months?
Exactly. How are people not getting this?
My cousin is had to go thru 4 rounds of interviews to be server at fucking Applebees or some shit. Job market is shit rn
Did you not read the numbers? Trumps added 475,000 in a year and a half. Even using Biden’s worst year (2024), Biden is still 6x those numbers. That’s just a fact.
Current admin pardoned hundreds of violent rioters that attacked police on January 6th. This admin wants to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to pay those violent rioters, and anyone else that breaks the law in favor of this admin.
The corruption and untrustworthiness of the government has exploded recently and it is in no way comparable to previous administrations.
It saddens me that people are so ill informed that they would excuse the current admin as the inevitable outcome of history. Absolutely not.
Lower jobs numbers are good for stocks, though. As it makes it more like likely for rate cuts.
High job numbers means rate hikes are much more likely.
We are probably gonna see rate hikes anyways because of the Iran war. But it’s important to understand what lower or higher jump numbers means for the direction of interest rates
Biden shut down businesses?
Manufacturing
They’re trying to hide how bad things are. Worth noting they can’t hide the money disappearing from people’s wallets
Which is wild that they're even trying. They truly are detached from reality.
Blatantly not true. January's 2nd and 3rd revisions are higher than original and March was higher.
Almost all of 2025 did get revised down, though
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm