The unemployment numbers we've waiting for all week have come in, and my goodness. We're talking 7.2 percent, the highest since January 1993.
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Today on Planet Money:
-- Tradition Asiel Securities trader Will Aston-Reese gives the view from his desk. (It's a little better!)
-- On Thursday, we presented a puzzler: Where is all the U.S. currency? Today economists Richard Porter and Ken Rogoff fire up an amazing answer.
-- Listener Sophia Suhu got laid off the night before she dialed in for an Economist House Call. Now she has a puzzler of her own: What's a person gotta do to get a low-wage job anymore?
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