Upshot: Economy Continues to Add Jobs

Also: Predicting the next recession View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Friday, August 3, 2018 [NYTimes.com/Upshot »]( [U.S. Added 157,000 Jobs in July; Unemployment Rate Slips to 3.9%]( By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ The Labor Department report followed a steady stream of hiring gains and a robust reading on second-quarter economic growth. [What Will Cause the Next Recession? A Look at the 3 Most Likely Possibilities]( By NEIL IRWIN The expansion is nine years old. An ill-timed end of fiscal stimulus, a corporate debt bubble and the trade war are the things that could most easily end it. Wheels [Health Officials Prepare to Track Electric Scooter Injuries]( By BRADLEY BERMAN Doctors and public health workers in San Francisco are preparing to track injuries from electric scooters and the other transportation services blossoming in the city. ADVERTISEMENT FEEDBACK For suggestions on how we can improve this newsletter, write to newsletters@nytimes.com. If you have a compelling data set you’d like us to pursue, send it to [dear.upshot@nytimes.com](mailto:dear.upshot@nytimes.com?subject=Upshot%20Newsletter%20Feedback). Weekly Highlights [Apple’s Value Hit $1 Trillion. Add Disney to Bank of America and ... You’re Halfway There]( By JON HUANG, KARL RUSSELL AND JACK NICAS A look at how Apple’s trillion-dollar value stacks up against other companies and entire industries. [Data Breaches Keep Happening. So Why Don’t You Do Something?]( By CHRISTOPHER MELE News about leaks of personal information can lead consumers to believe that’s the new normal, but experts caution against such “breach fatigue.” In Case You Missed It ... David Walter Banks for The New York Times [The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery]( By IVAN PENN, MIKA GRÖNDAHL, DAVID WALTER BANKS, JOSH HANER AND JOSH WILLIAMS Engineers want to turn the dam into a vast reservoir of excess electricity from the solar farms and wind turbines that represent the power sources of the future. [Some attendees at President Trump’s rally in Tampa on Tuesday wore T-shirts with a block letter Q.]( Chris O’Meara/Associated Press [What Is QAnon: Explaining the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally]( By JUSTIN BANK, LIAM STACK AND DANIEL VICTOR Do you remember Pizzagate? It’s a little like that: a web of baseless conspiracy theories. And its supporters were highly visible at an event for the president in Florida. LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here.]( ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW UPSHOT [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@UpshotNYT]( Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's The Upshot newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2018 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018