Did Employment Numbers Change the Equation for the Fed?

Published on December 24, 2025

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the delayed October and November nonfarm payroll numbers, do we know more about the US labor market than we knew before the release? Probably not.

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