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> unless those stocks expected to be able to get some benefit from a weak jobs report like slowing the increase in interest rates, or a cheaper labor market because there were lots of tech workers recently laid off and would therefore have downward pressure on their salaries?

This is the point. The Fed has been very explicit lately that they've raised interest rates in order to depress wages. They said the quiet part out loud.




The extent of denial about this is terrifying. I mean, the Fed literally gave that exact reason for the first rate increase. They could not have been anymore explicit.




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