Eyes on the Economy

Eyes on the Economy Episode 14
12 min

No love of labor: Why the US labor market needs some preventative medicine

Benjamin Tal, CIBC’s Deputy Chief Economist, joins Ali Jaffery, Senior Economist to talk through their latest note dissecting the US labor market. Motivated by a desire to preserve margin gains, businesses are adding less labor with job growth trending down and a worrisome pattern of revisions making it difficult to make a real-time read on the job market.

Benjamin TalAli Jaffery
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Benjamin Tal, Ali Jaffery