Same numbers, two different readings. On Tuesday, the speeches of Joe Biden and Jerome Powell recalled this gap in perception, a few days after the publication of the American report on employment. For the American president, triumph: unemployment rate at its lowest since 1969 (at 3.4%), while half a million jobs were created during the month of January. This while the announcements of unprecedented layoffs in tech could have led to believe in another development. It is that in the other sectors, we continue to recruit.