J: I really wanted to use the phrase "barn burner" to describe May's employment report, but turns out I've been scooped. The use of the very colorful term "barnburner" to describe a phenomenally robust increase in employment appeared in a New York Times article on April 1 about the February data: Job growth probably slowed in March. Last month’s jobs report was a barn burner: Employers added 313,000 jobs in February, the most in one month since 2016, and the strong labor ma