The episode covers the June jobs report, which showed weak job growth of just 57,000 new jobs and a drop in unemployment to 4.2% due to people leaving the labor force. Wage growth remains sluggish at 3.5%, and concerns grow over AI-driven job displacement and the ethics of de-extinction t
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