Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Just A Thought
Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August.
Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.”
The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.”
The workforce participation rate rose as well — which matters, because people who drop out of the labor force are invisible in unemployment rates that only count those who are looking for work.
This economy is pulling Americans who’d given up hope off the sidelines and putting them to work.Read more, see video and photos here.
Giuliani — whose steady leadership in the aftermath of the attacks earned him the nickname “America’s mayor” — said during an interview with Newsmax on Sunday that the notion of Mamdani attending the memorials this week “offends me.
“The reality is this ceremony is for the families and for America to remember historically,” Giuliani said.
“Having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming,” he said of Mamdani.
The 82-year-old ex-mayor claimed that Mamdani “doesn’t agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States Of America,” before going off on an anti-Muslim conspiracy-laced rant.


