Bulwark

There are good reasons they call economics the "Dismal Science", not the least of which is the fact that it can be dismally boring.

So there's this weird dichotomy that says you can get the gist of it by skimming the surface, and be fairly confident you're drawing accurate conclusions. But there's always more to it - there's never a perfectly clear picture of any of it no matter how you flyspeck the data.

It's maddening.

29,000 new jobs for September (more than 60,000 under what was expected), and New Job numbers for July and August were adjusted downward.

BTW, even way back in the days of Colonial Mercantilism, they knew it was a bad idea to tariff your input materials.