Matthew C Klein, Columnist

Diving Into Today's Rosy Jobs Report

No single data release probably affects markets more than the monthly jobs reportÂ published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which today noted that the economy added 204,000 workers in October.

November 8, 2013 at 2:12 PM UTC

By Matthew C Klein

Matthew C. Klein writes for Bloomberg View about the economy and financial markets. He previously wrote for the Economist magazine and its economics blog, Free Exchange. Before that, Klein was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he spent more than two years studying the history of the Federal Reserve and the intellectual history of monetary economics for an upcoming book by Sebastian Mallaby. He also worked at Bridgewater Associates, where he studied the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and advised institutional investors on asset-liability management. Klein has a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University. Originally from Chicago, he lives in New York.

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