In June, the economy added only 18,000 jobs net. Today, Borders and Cisco announced they were cutting a combined 17,500 jobs. Uh oh. (h/t Maxwell Strachan)
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Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and the media. He is the author of Hit Makers and the host of the podcast Crazy/Genius.