U.S. Job Growth Hits 139K in May—Exactly as Boring as Wall Street Predicted
Another month, another jobs report that lands squarely in the 'meh' zone. The U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May—just enough to keep the Fed's spreadsheet jockeys from panicking, but not enough to shake markets out of their complacency.
Main Street limps along while Wall Street yawns. Traders barely glanced at the numbers before returning to their algorithmic day-trading hamster wheels. Meanwhile, the real economy keeps chugging—neither overheating nor stalling, just delivering exactly the mediocrity economists ordered.
Funny how these forecasts always seem to hit the Goldilocks zone—not too hot to scare the Fed, not too cold to spook investors. Almost like the numbers are... massaged? Nah, that'd be cynical.