A booming outlier in the pandemic economy 💥

Also, a look at last week and next week 🔭

Workers sort out parcels at Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 (Source: Getty Images)

On Friday, we learned U.S. employers added 199,000 jobs in December, bringing total employment to 148.95 million.

And while employment in aggregate remained below its pre-pandemic level of 152.52 million jobs in February 2020, some parts of t…