A conversation on CNBC’s Squawk Box about the economic strain of Covid-19 devolved into a pointed exchange between Rick Santelli and Andrew Ross Sorkin about masks and restrictions on businesses.Santelli, a Chicago-based correspondent known for delivering on-air rants like his 2009 diatribe against President Barack Obama, said too many businesses were being harmed by state and local restrictions.
The main topic was the release of monthly labor statistics showing that only 245,000 jobs were added by U.S. employers in November, the lowest tally since the spring.
The weak employment numbers come as the U.S. experiences the worst stretch of the pandemic thus far, with more than 100,000 people hospitalized and a record-setting single-day
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