Dude, Where's My Recession?

 

Rezoned development around a suburban transit hub. Image via New Jersey State League of Municipalities.

Happy beginning-of-the-month Freaky Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases last month's job numbers and we sit down to play another round of Good News is Bad News:

I'm looking at this jolly message

Holy moly, we've got another one!

Payrolls grew a huuuuuge +253k in April, well above market expectations. There's no hint of any sort of labor market slowdown in these numbers. Other indicators had been hinting at a slowdown, but these are more reliable.

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 5, 2023

and instead of smiling, I'm instantly telling myself ruh-roh, Fed's gonna keep pushing those interest rates up. Bad News! But wondering, can't you let it be Good News for a change, just the one time?

Hispanics May Be of Any Race

Desi was willing to be non-white. For religious reasons. Good for him.

Some heartening media news on Friday was the story that TelevisaUnivision has sold 18 Spanish-language radio stations in 10 major markets including Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Las Vegas as well as New York and Los Angeles to a new organization, the Latino Media Network, which seems to be led by Democrats Stephanie Valencia (who served as Obama's Latin outreach director) and Jess Morales Rocketto,

At least Marco was pretty upset for some reason:

You mean after decades of living with monopolization by the all-white all-Republican generation of 1960, today's politically and ethnically diverse Cuban American community could be finally getting a voice. Not good news for you, I guess.

— Woke Mob Values (@Yastreblyansky) June 5, 2022

Maybe it's because one of the Miami stations (the one he chose to @) is Radio Mambí, famous for pushing the worst disinformation through the Spanish-speaking community in the Miami—that Black Lives Matter is a "Satanic cult" and that BLM and "antifa" warriors masterminded the January 6 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, and hoped to kidnap Trump from the White House, and also pushing Replacement Theory: