It’s Friday.
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
01/09/2025:
President Greedy as Fuck posted about the meeting @4:19 am D.C., time.
CNN reports that the oil companies have demands before they agree to spend money in Venezuela.
The companies gonna go kiss his ass in the hopes they get their silver.
Full list of attendees for Trump's meetings with oil executives today:
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) January 9, 2026
Chevron
Exxon Mobil
Conoco Phillips
Continental Resources
Halliburton
HKN Inc.
Valero
Marathon
Shell
Trafigura
Vitol Americas
Repsol
Eni
Aspect Holdings
Tallgrass
Raisa Energy
Hilcorp
Secretary of State Marco…
Show more =’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been leading the Trump administration’s strategy toward Caracas, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who has already met with some oil executives this week, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will join the president for the meeting, a White House official said.
Economic News
The BLS has released Decembers job report.
The charts:
Charts! Starting with our first look at the full-year 2025. We added 584,000 jobs last year, the slowest pace of growth since 2020. (Note that both the 2024 and 2025 figures will likely be revised down when we get the benchmark revisions next month.) #jobsday https://t.co/d71zvUoLs1 pic.twitter.com/KWOXKp7yt8
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
The unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent, reversing the increase in November (which was also revised down). That should ease concerns that the labor market was rapidly unraveling, though unemployment is still rising gradually. pic.twitter.com/OfoF9w9Hzs
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
The rise in underemployment is being driven by an increase in the number of people working part-time involuntarily. That figure fell in December, but didn't come close to fully reversing its November jump. pic.twitter.com/p1nwf2rzSw
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
The Black unemployment rate fell in December, reversing its big increase in November. But the bigger picture here hasn't changed: Unemployment has risen steeply for Black workers over the past year, and is about double the rate for white workers. pic.twitter.com/tt8Gkmiiox
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
The federal government added jobs at the end of the year, but not by nearly enough to overcome the huge declines earlier in the year (including a big drop in October that was revised to be even bigger). For the year as a whole, federal employment fell by 274k. pic.twitter.com/jM5sjonS3H
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
Revisions continue to be consistently negative. The size of the revisions isn't outside historical norms, but it's rare to get this long a period of downward revisions outside a recession. pic.twitter.com/FWDtO66jtN
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 9, 2026
Speaking of charts…
It’s appears President Greedy As Fuck leaked the numbers via “Lies Social”.
Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS.
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) January 9, 2026
At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.
(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday… pic.twitter.com/IbxlkgkWiU
Show more =’s (Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
We should be shocked.
We should be outraged.
We are neither and that says a lot about how far we’ve fallen.
I was planning to share more things beyond the economic, but I’ve hit the wall.
One last hit before I wrap…
I wish we could just demand a new time line and boom problems solved.
This is an open thread
