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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by bitshiftfaced on Saturday August 30, 2025 @06:59PM (#45078740)
Looking at total private jobs over time, growth slowed after the post covid bump, but 2025 doesn't look all that different from 2024: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU36935610500000001SA#
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:32PM (#45078942)
Both the NYC Employment Data the New York Times cites [1] and these Fed data [2] are seasonally adjusted. Would take them with a shaker of salt given the assumptions in those adjustment models are likely currently under assault. (Hehe.)

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/sa-methodology-...

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/software/x13as.html

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