50 Basis Point Cut Coming? US Economy Adds Only 22k Jobs In August, Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.3% (Guns Of August Misfires)

Not exactly the Guns Of August. More like a wet cap gun firing.

The jobs report for August showed only 22k jobs added.

U-3 unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. U-6 unemployment and part-time rose to 8.1%.

Total private jobs added was 38k while manufacturing jobs added was down -12k.

Government jobs dropped -16k.

It gets worse! All of the jobs added were PART-TIME!

It gets even worse: native-born workers plunged by 561K, the biggest one month drop since August 2024. Foreign-born workers increased by 50K, the first increase since March.

Let’s see if The Fed drops the hammer on rates by 50 basis points.