Layoffs are coming
mark94
Arizona
While everyone is talking about inflation, there is another important economic measure flashing severe danger. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced that output, what was created, dropped 2.4 percent, yet labor hours used to create those outputs increased 5.5 percent. This creates a productivity drop of 7.5% for the overall business. The largest quarterly drop in productivity since 1947.
This sudden and severe drop in productivity, caused by price inflation and a resulting drop in demand, is going to force large businesses to reduce their workforce.
This is a repeat of the stagflation from the 1970s. Government spending and debt leads to inflation, which reduces demand, which leads to layoffs, which further reduces demand, and so on.
This sudden and severe drop in productivity, caused by price inflation and a resulting drop in demand, is going to force large businesses to reduce their workforce.
This is a repeat of the stagflation from the 1970s. Government spending and debt leads to inflation, which reduces demand, which leads to layoffs, which further reduces demand, and so on.
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Need to fix our broken economic system and go to UBI, Strong Public Housing Offering, Medicare for All, Free College with dept forgivness.
As a start, pass Biden's Build Back Better Budget.
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So, sure, I wouldn’t be surprised if the corrupt morons in Washington tried again to spend our way out of inflation. If so, our current economic mess will seem like a picnic.
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Interest rates are currently at 2% while inflation is at 8%. Meanwhile, Biden is proposing spending trillions more. So, no, I don’t see things improving anytime soon.
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Personally I work in sales, and I saw this coming since last summer. Certainly are odd times, interest rates are going to skyrocket but housing is still hard to come by. Up until now I felt like I could do anything. Find a new job when ever I wanted, take out a loan with little worries, spend freely, but now I am cautious for the time being, who knows what will happen over the next few years. Inflation, possibility of more international conflicts, supply issues / shortages. It good times no matter what country you live in.
Seems most signs are leading to very tough times ahead and my worry is the Brandon administration's focus is "white supremacy", correct-pronouns, the environment (we're gonna die soon if we don't spend trillions ASAP), and the "disinformation bureau" - rigged-elections have consequences; we've put in power people that just care about being in power the country be damned.
Seems the Fed will have to choose b/w taming inflation or letting the economy/markets blow-up - many are saying that sooner than later the Fed is gonna be forced to give-up the inflation "fight" and come to the rescue of the economy/market by adding/restarting more QE, and stopping or backtracking on interests-hikes - causing inflation to not be "tamed".
Some are saying the Fed may actually want the high-inflation as the only somewhat plausible way of dealing w/ the astronomical national-debt (inflate the debt away).
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That’s another cause of recessions. The fear of a recession causes people to stop spending and build an emergency fund. That crushes demand for goods and services, leading to recession.
http://newser.com/s320239
Not saying I agree with this article, just reporting the news.
We are beginning to see layoffs at these tech companies. I expect a bloodbath at Twitter once Elon is in charge.