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Companies are able to add this many jobs even with higher interest rates because they are still flush with cash from decades of low interest rates, lobbying, income inequality and PPE loans.
Raising interest rates forces companies to spend their own capital to add these jobs instead of using money that the Federal Reserve prints to keep the interest rate low.
Raising interest rates sucks in the short term but it is required in the long term and severely overdue.
We can’t print free money forever just to have low interest rates.
That would be like taking a whole bottle of prescription pills at once to get better now instead of taking them as prescribed.