The unemployment rate upticked to 7.8%, and the jobs added number was mediocre as expected, with 155,000 jobs being added.
Stocks rallied on beginning of the year enthusiasm.
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"To enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.' To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man – to be an ex-man or 'damned ghost' – would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will." C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, 1940