U.S. Economy: Labor Market Takes a Walk 🚶♂️
• U-3: 4.6% 📈
• U-6: 8.7% ⚠️
• Retail sales: flat (real spending negative w/inflation) 🛒• Rates 📉 — labor still 📉
•Gold & Silver 📈
How to position your portfolio as growth slows. The latest 👇https://t.co/Gnenu1VSZt pic.twitter.com/4fPSfnOAFn— The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) December 16, 2025
The US labor market is coming to a halt: The total nonfarm hiring rate fell -0.2 percentage points in October, to 3.2%, the lowest since the 2020 pandemic bottom
byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
The US economy is in a hiring recession.
Almost no jobs have been added since April.
Wage gains are slowing.
710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024.November +64,000 jobs
October -105,000 (impacted by shutdown)
September +108,000
August -26,000
July… pic.twitter.com/ULtXWyjTzk— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) December 16, 2025
Adjusted for ISM methodology, Empire Manufacturing Index felt to 50 (unchanged) in December pic.twitter.com/zZ5vRm7Ns9
— Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) December 16, 2025
There’s a reason gas prices are plummeting.
We are in a recession.
And it’s going to get worse.
Buckle up.
— Aes🇺🇸 (@AesPolitics1) December 16, 2025
BREAKING: The US unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, highest since September 2021.
Expectations were 4.5%
Trump's economy sucks.
Even Fox Business News has to talk about it! pic.twitter.com/YvmXQXMsrc
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 16, 2025
Rising jobless rate, highest in more than four years, adds pressure on economy
U.S. unemployment rose to 4.6% in November, the highest since Sept. 2021, as hiring slowed and payrolls trailed the decade’s monthly average.
The U.S. government’s first official jobs report in more than two months shows hiring has slowed considerably, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November — the highest level since September 2021.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the nation lost more than 100,000 jobs in October 2025 amid a government shutdown. More than 162,000 federal positions were lost that month, and roughly 6,000 federal jobs were lost in November.