Buzzed Kudlow on ‘Fluky’ Feb Jobs Report
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Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council Director, Signals for a Drink
Washington, d.c.
Somewhere around 9 a.m. this morning, National Economic Council Director, Larry Kudlow, commented on the February jobs report in which only 20,000 jobs were added — quite a miss from the 180,000+ jobs economists had been expecting. “I wouldn’t pay any attention to it,” Kudlow said, and then proceeded to look for his martini.
When asked to elaborate on the report, he called it “fluky” and “silly”. Kudlow, who appeared to this reporter to be about four drinks deep at the morning interview, then paused the discussion to flag down a waiter. When an aide pointed out that the person Kudlow was waving at was in fact a security guard, Kudlow said to the aide, “Of course he is, now be a good man and fetch me some olives.”
When his attention was brought back to the jobs report, Kudlow said, “Women! Women are giving labor…I mean returning to the labor market in record numbers.”
Last month, when discussing January’s surprise bump in jobs, Kudlow said it was “significant”. When asked if he was cherry-picking good news and dismissing bad news, Kudlow slowly blinked three times while focusing his thoughts and replied, “Look I’m nothing if not, incon…incon…thirsty.”