News Summary

• The u.s. economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August.
• That's more than three times the 53,000 jobs economists had expected.
• The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, even as the labor force participation rate edged up to 61.6%.
• "For 240 years it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start," Warren Buffett wrote in his 2015 shareholder letter.
• "America's golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs"