• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “The economy looks to be recovering!”

    The millions of people not doing great in various ways: “Yay.”

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      1 year ago

      I literally just had a friend get laid off this morning, and then I went and looked at the news and saw that Microsoft laid a lot of people off.

      This is of course after me and every single one of my colleagues were laid off because our company went under last August.

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    1 year ago

    We still haven’t seen the collapse of commercial real estate yet. It’s coming… will see how much it ripples through the banking system.

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      1 year ago

      What do you mean? Inflation is literally down, with not recession being caused and no significant loss of jobs. Considering people were expecting a recession, this is a pretty good result.

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        1 year ago

        We still have all that corp realestate debt on the bank balance sheets, while inflation is indeed “down” that just means prices are rising slower on the massive inflation we already had which is not helpful. The numbers put out in headlines are revised down every time after people are no longer paying attention.

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            1 year ago

            You and OP are like that white dude popping out of wells saying “hmmm actually!” When most people are tired of increased costs, weakening purchasing power of common folk, and layoffs.

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          1 year ago

          ??? so we agree inflation is down and that’s better than a recession. We can see there’s still other issues to worry about economically, but that not the point. The point is that things are starting to look more optimistic with regards to inflation.