we're counting down this hour to the august employment rate kate moore is here, aaron klein brookingshen. research fellow in washington this morning you're right next to me, what do you think is going to happen, kate >> we're going to have a just fine employment report. >> what's the one thing you're looking for? i don't want to do numbers now we'll play that game in a bit. >> those numbers are important we're focused most on wages, from equity perspective we care about how companies are handling slightly higher wage pressures, interested to see where the biggest wage gains are and whether or not the consumer can power the economy. i'm most focused on that. >> here's the other question we don't want to get too hot this becomes a goldilocks, how much movement you can have, how the fed is going to look at this, and therefore how the equity market will then look at this. >> that's exactly the right construct to think about this, and i think kate nailed it it's not about some jobs number. if it's 150,000 or 250,000 it doesn't change anything for the fed. at this point it's all about sort