{"id":435694,"date":"2026-08-07T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-we-are-in-a-zero-to-modest-gain-jobs-environment-435694\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:14:47","slug":"feds-barkin-we-are-in-a-zero-to-modest-gain-jobs-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-we-are-in-a-zero-to-modest-gain-jobs-environment-435694\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Barkin: We are in a zero-to-modest gain jobs environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Comments from Barkin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job data was very consistent wit ha sector in weak balance<\/li>\n<li>Job data is more low hire, low fire<\/li>\n<li>The jobs data doesn&#8217;t feel very good but it is where it is<\/li>\n<li>Corporate earnings are quite strong and growing nicely<\/li>\n<li>Is watching corporate earnings for linkage to job market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the kind of talk we heard earlier this year, then it faded for awhile when jobs were around 100k per month.<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t think there is wage inflation right now<\/li>\n<li>Sees pricing power in business to business, pricing power limited in business to consumer side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from Barkin: Job data was very consistent wit ha sector in weak balance Job data is more low hire, low fire The jobs data doesn&#8217;t feel very good but it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}