On October 30th Barron’s hosted a webinar on current economic trends and the job market moderated by Lauren Rutkowski, Senior Engagement Manager at Barron’s and Joe Laurenzano, Account Manager at Dow Jones. Lauren and Joe asked Megan Leonhardt, Senior Economics Writer at Barron’s and Nicole Pesce, Assistant Managing Editor at Marketwatch, to answer pre-submitted questions from students in the audience. Following this, students were then able to submit questions live via the chat feature. The conversation began with questions surrounding the outlook on the US market as well as the outlook for employment for recent graduates. In answering this, Megan underscored that the contexts that drive the data we see are crucial for how we understand that data. We cannot look at the employment numbers that were coming out later that week, or any week for that matter, without factoring variables such as the Boeing strike and the effects of two disastrous hurricanes. However, given external variables...