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With leading economic measures still trending down, optimists who advocated against fighting the Fed during the free-money era have ditched their own advice. Their focus is now on lagging indicators, like the employment numbers—but that last bastion of strength seems ready to buckle.

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Our Treasury Secretary (and former Fed Chair) has described the JOLT survey (Job Openings and Labor Turnover) as her favorite labor market indicator. We don’t know why: It’s a good survey, but similar figures become available about two months in advance of JOLT.

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Statistically, when jobs are “easy to get”—as all the survey evidence now indicates—attractive long-term returns for stocks typically become “hard to get.”

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