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Agency publishing the CPI and payroll data underpinning the cluster, including the 23,000 job loss.
Jeff Kesler's Future Financial is buying Commercial State Bank and betting that out-of-state acquirers have pushed small Texas lenders toward the exit.
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Roughly 75% of CPAs retire within 15 years and up to 40,000 practices need new owners, while private equity absorbed about 875 firms in a decade. Sellers are the abundant side.
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Net migration collapsed, foreign-born unemployment fell below native-born in October 2025, and the headline rate held. Those three facts fit together in a way employers should read carefully.
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Response rates for the vacancy series that feeds Fed expectations have fallen from the high 60s to roughly 30% in a decade. The BLS has started publishing the evidence.
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