By Justin Fox, Bloomberg

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US jobs report revisions hit frackers, retail workers

The 422,000-job revision for December reduced employment by just 0.3%

An employee on the production line at the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, Texas. The overall US payroll employment was ratcheted down by more than 400,000 jobs because of an annual “benchmark revision”

The irony of the US remaining a top draw for talent

In terms of actual quality of living parameters, the US has slipped up quite alarmingly

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Trump can still show off US stocks’ performance

Only one other President has had a better set of market numbers

US President Donald Trump.

The share buy-back frenzy needs to wind down

It has or soon will reach a point when it becomes plainly dumb to continue doing so

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Shareholder value does not cut it any longer

Listed businesses seem to have lost focus elsewhere in their fixation with stocks

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Running out of names for businesses to go by

Yahoo’s decision to change identity to Altaba smacks of a lack of options

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Dow’s 20,000 is another in grand scheme

Attaching too much historical rendering to it might be a bit excessive

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Innovation is about making the existing better

This may have led to fewer cutting-edge products coming through the pipeline

Today’s innovation is about making the existing better

Give land values rightful status in economy

There is a shift from under-representing status in stoking or curbing growth

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Wealthiest nation has some catching up to do

The US rates poorly on key counts against other developed nations

Spare a thought for those grocery retailers

If Amazon Go’s no-checkout strategy clicks, they will be the ones in firing lines

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The right way to get back ‘Made in the US’

That does not mean protectionism is the way to arrive at a solution

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