The Bureau of Labor Statistics obliterated whatever cover the Federal Reserve may have had to give liberals and activist investors their ephemeral dream of a pivot away from the central bank’s interest rate hike campaign. Contrary to lackluster expert expectations of job growth, July saw an increase of more than half a million jobs, bringing the unemployment rate to a half-century low of 3.5%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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