The US job market could be headed down a troubling path, Jim Paulsen says. The veteran strategist and former chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group said he was eyeing an unusual disconnect related to the labor market : while job growth has remained relatively flat in recent years, corporate profits have accelerated. That could raise the risk of a  jobless economic boom  — an uncommon configuration in which GDP expands despite little to no new hiring, Paulsen wrote in a Substack post