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ProgressiveEconomist

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2. Where to get the best instant analysis of the 830 am announcement

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Thu Jul 5, 2012, 11:31 AM

Jul 2012

Steve Leesman of CNBC IMO is the one to watch Friday morning. At 8am, usually a CNBC panel convenes to predict the key jobs numbers. This panel almost always includes John McCain's 2008 campaign economist, Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Analytics. After the 8:30 announcement, members of the panel try to explain what the just-released statistics mean.

Some time after 8:30, Steve Leesman usually comes back on the air with his own instant analysis of important and surprising details in the report. His "Unemployment Friday" analyses are by far the most consistently thorough and informative I've ever seen on broadcast or cable.

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What to look for: LINKS to tomorrow's BLS jobs report for June 2012 [View all] ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 OP

Note: Clicking on either of the first 2 BLS links before 8:30 Friday will ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #1

Where to get the best instant analysis of the 830 am announcement ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #2

Consensus forecasts of total nonfarm job gains and the unemploment rate ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #3

Construction jobs were up a puny 2,000, and public sector jobs down 4,000 ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #4