Next, we’re going toturn to the economy and jobs figures that came out today that caught nearly everybody by surprise. The government said the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August. It was the first monthly decline in four years. Stocks plunged on the news. The Dow Jones fell 250 points. The NASDAQ tumbled nearly two percent. ABC’s Betsy Stark is joining us tonight. Betsy.
Charlie, many consider the jobs report the single most important barometer of the nation’s economic health. Well, right now, that barometer is readinghigh alert. The risks of a serious slowdown, even a recession, are rising.
Today’s jobs report was shockingly bleak. -- This is a big deal, and it definitely tells us that overall, the performance of the economy in the last few months is quite a bit weaker than we thought it was even yesterday. That’s hardly news to mortgage broker Jim Delano; last week after 25 years in real estate, he got his first pink slip. -- I’m not optimistic about finding a job in the very near future.
Workers in businesses directly tied to housing took the hardest hit last month: 22,000 jobs lost in construction, and no job gains in the giant financial services industry. But more worrisome were job cuts in parts of the economy that had been holding up well. Government payrollshrank by 28,000 as revenues from property taxes began to dry up.
Communities around the country are feeling the pinch. In Fairfax County, Virginia, they’re worried about school funding. -- Quite honestly, we’re, you know, trying to pick ourselves up now and decide how we’re going to get through these next couple years. Investors who have been beating the drum for a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve say the issue is no longer ‘if,’ but ‘by how much.’
-- I’m looking for the Fed to administer a stronger dose than I would have expected yesterday. The issue now is whether this medicine investors are counting on will come in time. It will be a race against the clock for 12,000 workers at Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender. They learned late today that their jobs will be cut unless there is a dramatic reversal in the housing market. Charlie. ABC's Betsy Stark, Thanks.
Which of the following is false?
According to the article, which of the following is NOT indicative of a troubled economy?
※ consider A (to be) B : A를 B라고 여기다 They considered sprinter Kelli White (to be) a top prospect for gold in the summer Olympics. → Sprinter Kelli White was considered a top prospect for gold ~ - consider A (to be) B : A is considered (to be) B - regard A as B : A is regarded as B - think of A as B : A is thought of as B - look upon A as B : A is looked upon as B
※ pick up 1. 집어들다 ex. He picked the phone up as soon as it rang. 2. 치우다 (to lift things up and put them in the place where they are kept in order to make a place tidy) ex. I am constantly picking up the things the children leave lying around. 3. ~ 을 차에 태우다 (to go and meet someone or something that you have arranged to take somewhere in a vehicle) ex. Will you pick me up after the party? ex. I'll pick up my luggage in the morning. 내 짐을 아침에 찾으로 오겠다 . 4. ~ 을 습득하다 (to learn a new skill or start a habit without intending to) ex. She picked up a few German phrases while staying in Berlin . 5. 병에 걸리다 ( to get an illness: CATCH) ex. Most tourists are worried that they'll pick up a really nasty infection. 6. ~ 을 알아채다 ~ 을 포착하다 (to notice a smell or sound, or that someone or something is present) ex. The dogs must have picked up his scent. 7. ( 환자가 ) 회복하다 , ( 날씨 성적 경기 등이 ) 좋아지다 , 회복되다 ex. They won't let him out of hospital until his health has picked up quite a lot. ex. I hope the economy picks up soon. ex. World demand for petroleum will pick up again. 세계의 석유 수요가 다시 회복될 전망이다 . 8. ( 속도나 정도가 ) 증가하다 (if something such as the wind picks up, it becomes stronger/ if something picks up speed, it starts to move faster ex. The car picked up (speed) once it was on the highway. * pick up the pieces : 추스리다 , 수습하다 , 복구하다 / When you pick up the pieces after a disaster, you do what you can to get the situation back to normal again. ex. Do we try and prevent problems or do we try and pick up the pieces afterwards? * pick oneself up : 자신을 일으켜 세우다, 일어나다, 추스리다. ex. He picked himself up and ran along the track. * pick up the tab : 셈을 치르다 , 값을 지불하다 (for) * pick up the radio wave = pick up the radio frequency 주파수를 잡다 .
jobs figures : 일자리 숫자[수치] catch /take someone by surprise : ~ 를 깜짝놀라게 하다, 기습 하다 ex. The news took us by surprise. 그 소식은 우리를 깜짝 놀라게 했 다 . ex. Protesters marched into the governor's office, taking security forces by surprise. * be caught by surprise : 깜짝 놀라다, 기습당하다 plunge : ~ 을 처넣다 , ~ 을 빠뜨리다 , 뛰어들다 , 빠지다 , 급락하 다 , 뛰어들기 , 돌진 , 급락 * plunge one's hand into hot water 손을 뜨거운 물에 처넣다 / * plunge into a river 강에 뛰어들다 . * take the plunge : ( 수영장 등에 ) 뛰어들다 , 과감히 하다, 결혼하다 / to finally do something important, difficult, or dangerous after thinking about it tumble : 구르다 , 뒹굴다 , 넘어지다 , ( 가격·가치 따위가 ) 폭락하다 barometer : 기압계 , ( 여론·시세 등의 동향을 나타내 는 ) 지표 , 바로미터 / something that shows how a situation is changing or how people feel about something * barometer of: ex. Investment levels are seen as a good barometer of business confidence. read : (온도계 따위가) ~을 가리키다, ~ 를 표시하다, ~을 특정한 뜻으로 해석[판단]하다/ to understand something in a particular way: INTERPRET ex. The thermometer reads 70 degrees. 온도계는 70도를 가리키고 있다. ex. They had read the situation extremely accurately. * read A as B : A 를 B 로 해석하다 ex. We had read their decision as an admission of failure. high alert : 비상경보, 초경계태세 * go on high alert for ~ : ~에 대한 초경계 태세에 들어가다, ~ 에 대한 경계태세를 강화하다 slowdown : 감속, 경제 성장의 둔화, 경기 후퇴 bleak : < 장소 등이 > 황량한 , 삭막한 , < 날씨 . 바람 등이 > 차가 운 , < 장래 등이 > 어두운 , 암울한 quite a bit : 꽤, 상당한 mortgage : 저당 , 주택 융자 , 모기지 , ~ 을 저당하다 ex. hold a mortgage on a person's house 의 집을 저당잡다 / ex. The estate is mortgaged. 그 대지는 저당이 되어 있다 . * take out a mortgage 모기지융자 받다 real estate : 부동산 ex. a real estate agent 부동산 매매 중개인 * personal estate 동산 (=personal property ) pink slip : 해고통지서 worrisome : 귀찮은 , 곤란한 , 걱정되는 , ( 걸핏하면 ) 속을 썩이 는 ex. a worrisome question 귀찮은 문제 hold up : 지탱하다 , 견디어 내다 payroll : (종업원의) 급료 지불 명부, 종업원 명부[총수], (종업원 의) 급료 지급 총액 ex. on[off] the payroll 고용되어[실직해서] ex. They have approximately 100 employees on the payroll. / ex.They have an annual payroll of $ 23 million. shrink : 움츠러들다 , 오그라들다 , 줄어들다 , 축소시키다 , 움츠리게 하다 revenue : 세입 (income), 수익 , 수입 property tax : 재산세 dry up : 바싹 말리다 [ 마르다 ], 물기를 닦다 , 고갈되다 ex. All of his money has dried up. 그의 돈은 모두 고갈되었다 . pinch : ~ 을 꼬집다 , < 신발 . 옷 따위가 사람·신체의 일부를 > 죄다 , 꼭 끼어 아프게 하다 , < 재정·환경 등이 > ~ 을 어 렵게 하다 , 꼬집기 , ( 굶주림 등의 ) 고생 , 곤란 , 꼬집는 듯한 통증 , 위기 ex. The new shoes pinch me[my feet]. 새 구두가 꼭 끼어 발이 아프다 . / ex. be pinched for cash[time] 현금 [ 시간 ] 이 없어 어려움을 겪고 있 다 . ex. the pinch of poverty 가난의 고통 . * feel the pinch : to have less money than you need 돈에 쪼들려 고통을 당하다 ex. With rising interest rates, many homeowners are beginning to feel the pinch. * pinch pennies : to be thrifty or miserly. pickup : ~ 을 차에 태우다 , < 환자가 > 점차 회복 하다 (recover), < 경기날씨성적 등이 > 좋아지다 , 나아지다 , < 속 력 등이 > 빨라지다 , 더하다 , ~ 을 포착하다[메모참고] get through : 통화연결되다, ~ 을 통과하다, ( 어려운 때를 ) 타개 해 나가다 (to manage to deal with a difficult situation or stay alive until it is over) ex. I cannot get through (to her by phone). 전화를 해도 그녀와 통화가 되지를 않아요 . ex. The refugees will need help to get through the winter. ex. I just have to get through the first five minutes of my speech, and then I'll be fine. beat the drum (for~) : (~을) 요란하게 선전[지지]하다 / to publicly show your support for something or someone interest rate : 이자율 administer : ( 업무 등을 ) 관리하다 , 운영하다 , 다스리다 , 통 치하다 , ( 법률규칙 등을 ) 시행 [ 집행 ] 하다 , ( 약 등을 ) 투여하다 dose : ( 약의 1 회분 ) 복용량 , ( 약의 ) 한 첩 , ( 비유적 ) 쓴 약 , 약 이 되는 것 , ( 충고 따위의 ) 한마디 ex. take medicine in small doses 조금씩 약을 복용하다 / ex. a lethal[a fatal] dose 치사량 * dose of : an amount of something bad that happens to you ex. I've just had a nasty dose of flu. ex. Local people were exposed to high doses of radiation. count on : 의지하다 , 기대하다 (rely) (to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you ) ex. The whole team was counting on me, and I let them down. ex. count on someone for something: You can always count on him for good advice. ex. count on someone to do something: I knew I could count on you to be on time. ex. count on someone doing something: I was counting on Jane driving me home. against the clock : 일정한 시간까지 일을 마칠 수 있도록, 될 수 있 는 대로 빨리 ex. The entire department is working against the clock to meet the deadline. ex. An air force spokesman said the rescue operation was a race against time. * around the clock : all day and all night ex. Rescuers worked around the clock to free people trapped in the wreckage. * the clock is ticking : used for saying that someone must do something quickly because there will soon be no more time left reversal : 반전 , 역전 , 취소 , 파기 ex. a reversal of the situation 상황의 반전 housing market : 주택시장