Everyone wants to know if the economy is getting weaker.
Here's a number worth paying attention to:
188,000.
That's the average number of jobs the economy added each month across March, April, and May.
Not one month.
Three consecutive months.
That's not an economy hanging on by a thread.
That's not an economy signaling a recession tomorrow morning.
That's steady job growth.
The kind you'd be happy to see in almost any year.
The problem is that most people never look at the trend.
They look at a headline.
A prediction.
A scary forecast.
A single data point.
Investors can't afford to think that way.
The market rewards people who can separate temporary noise from meaningful trends.
Three months of consistent hiring tells us far more about the economy than a day's worth of headlines.
That's why smart investors follow the data.
Not the drama.
Do you focus more on economic headlines or economic trends when making investment decisions?