It’s been yet another horrific week in Minneapolis heading into month two of the siege and occupation and despite what were always blatantly hollow promises of de-escalation, things have actually gotten worse. Luckily federal agents haven’t murdered any more U.S. citizens over the past 9 days.

With the images above and below providing some sense of what’s transpired over the past week or so, I’ll keep the commentary to a minimum and jump straight into the U.S. job market, our data for January, and our non-farm payroll forecast for January.

To begin, and quite fittingly given the chaos, dysfunction and