Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, blowing away forecasts and reversing a slowdown in hiring that had prompted the Federal Reserve to make a jumbo rate cut at its meeting last month.

Economists had forecast 140,000 new jobs, according to financial data provider FactSet.

The unemployment rate inched down to 4.1%, versus 4.2% in the prior month.

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Jobs posted or actual hirable positions? I’ve had friends looking for jobs for months and can’t get bites with livable wages.

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This is not job openings, these are net new hires (all new hires minus all job quits / layoffs / retirements / whatever).

But, it’s not spread evenly by sector or geography. There are still areas with net losses.

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15 points

…how many of them are good…?

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How many pay livable wages too.

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Can a job be “good” without a livable wage?

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I keep seeing a job posting for a job that I think I would really like doing, but the pay is way too low to consider it.

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If your in high school and work 12 hours a week…maybe?

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How many of them during a revision in five months will be found to have not actually existed? Recently, they just found 800,000 jobs. They thought existed and didn’t.

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The establishment media is destroying itself by breathlessly cheerleading every “beat” that turns out not to be true and not in any way mentioning that the numbers have been revised so heavily all year.

If they’re going to mindlessly read press releases, you might as well just read the press releases.

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Exactly. And with how the government turns out to be with information in general, it’s a pretty good idea to take anything they say with a massive dose of salt.

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Believe or not… More rate cuts since CRE bag holders need to refi their debt over the next year or so.

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