The U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in June — well short of what experts say it will take to pull the country out of its employment slump. The euro and world markets fell on that news while London’s banking scandal keeps spreading.

Chrystia Freeland, Joshua Trevino and Robert Scheer join Matt Miller on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.”

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Follow him on Twitter: @areedkelly.

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