Amna Nawaz:

Stocks did surge on that very strong jobs report and the comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell.

The economy added more than 2.6 million jobs in 2018. That makes it the third best year for job growth since the recession and dating back to 2000. Only 2014 and 2015 were higher.

We dive into all of this with Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

Mark Zandi, welcome back to the "NewsHour."

So you heard earlier 312,000 new jobs added in December. This all good news in this report?