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Every time these disruptions happen people said we had hit a tipping point and it was going to be different this time. Not sure how this time is different.


Look out the window. Dow at a record high. Unemployment in recession territory. Labor demand and economic growth are decoupled.


The stock market is not economic growth. A far simpler explanation is that investors simply expect things like the labor market to recover, which is exactly why the markets react dramatically when the monthly jobs numbers are released.




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