Economist Justin Wolfers wings it after accidentally swallowing fly during live CNN segment on jobs report

The economy may be hard to swallow lately, but a fly is tougher. A live CNN segment on the state of the US economy came to a screeching halt when an expert accidentally swallowed a fly on air. University of Michigan professor and economist Justin Wolfers was deep into a discussion with CNN host Omar Jimenez on Saturday about newly confirmed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh and the surprisingly weak jobs report released on Friday — showing US employers shed 23,000 jobs last month, far short of the 80,000 gains economists had forecast. Economist Justin Wolfers winged it after accidentally swallowing a fly during a live interview about the US economy and jobs report with CNN’s Omar Jimenez. Credit CNN Wolfers had just finished telling Jimenez how the US labor market has been “remarkably resi