Published Friday, September 2, 2022 at: 7:48 PM EDT
The economy created 315,000 new jobs in August, signaling a recession has not begun despite Federal Reserve tightening and its hawkish pronouncements about its determination to end the post-pandemic inflation cycle. To be clear, employers continued to create more new jobs than were lost in August, even as the Fed said its No. 1 priority is ending the worst inflation in four decades. Stocks lost ground anyway.
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