Posted on 10/28/2025 7:51:58 PM PDT by dpetty121263
I know many claim things are better but the there are 0.97 open jobs to every 1 unemployed...Businesses are closing right and left..Banks are in trouble, repos are at record levels, Credit Card defaults are at atmospheric levels. Beginning to look like 1929...the beginnings of it anyway...Let them eat cake I guess...
October layoffs Amazon 30,000+ UPS 46,000 Target 1,800 Paramount 1,000 Applied Materials 1,400 Sika 1,800 And many more
Just wait until all of the Fed job cuts hit the market. They already have…they just did not show up in the employment numbers.
We have been overdue for a recession for years. It’s gonna take a while for all of the tax cut/tariff stuff to settle into place.
Watch for an increase in discussion about “rebates” or “stimulus” checks. Watch the debt start to race up again.
And most of it will be timed to deal with the 2026 mid terms, with real issues coming home to roost in 2027/2028.
Yeah Trump had claimed to be sending out checks ($5000 Doge, $2500 Tariff checks) he is full of crap as most Politian’s are. Pretty sure the Farmers are waiting on their checks as well..
I just met with our financial advisor last night, she said overall they are cautiously optimistic about the economy right now. Yes, there are a lot of layoffs (Geico just laid of ~30,000 people) but it’s balancing out.
-SB
Balancing out how? The reemployment do not match out...
Exactly right. But sadly that takes time to bring back jobs.
I can’t speak from experience. After my last contract expired it took me 8 months to find another one, I was 60 at the time and in software engineering. Age discrimination is real.
Hiring is still active and now with H1B visas all but shut down us old white folk are getting hired again.
-SB
One day Chicken-little had gone to sleep under a rose-bush, and a cow reached over the fence and bit off the top of the rose-bush. The noise wakened Chicken-little, and just as she woke a rose-leaf fell on her tail.
“Squawk! Squawk!” cried Chicken-little, “the sky’s falling down”; and away she ran as fast as her legs would carry her. She ran until she came to the barnyard, and there was Hen-pen rustling in the dust of the barnyard.
I don’t think a country that can import 25 million subhumans from all over the world to do slave labor and pump out babies has any right to complain about unemployment. Those companies had to lay off all those Americans to make an “American Dream” available for all those rapidly multiplying “bad bunnies” imported by the Demonrats to change the demographics of America.
We’ve been due for a ‘correction’ since 1999 especially since 2008 when nothing was fixed. They just shoveled more money into the pit.
“Working for a living, living and a working”.
Nice!
Right on.
This is the result of the Biden economy which was going down the tubes far before Trump got elected.
This was never going to be fixed in only a year.
It may never be fixed like you want because one hell of a lot of damage was done during Biden and the covid years. Obama did the damage to health care and Mavericks like McCain kept the damage in place.
Hating on Trump like you do only helps the people who created this total mess on the other side. I am not thrilled sometimes but I have to keep a realistic picture in mind.
Fanaticism leads a person to craziness. Chill out and if you hate Trump that much then really, this is not the site for you.
>> I don’t think a country that can import 25 million subhumans from all over the world to do slave labor and pump out babies has any right to complain about unemployment.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nailed it! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
U.S. retail closures: A growing trend
The number of retail stores closing in the U.S. has risen significantly over the past year:
In 2024, approximately 7,325 retail stores closed, making it the highest year for store closures since 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2025, analysts project that the trend will accelerate, with one research firm forecasting up to 15,000 retail closures. This would be more than double the number of closures in 2024 and a new record.
Major brands like Party City and Big Lots have contributed significantly to this recent spike, often due to bankruptcy filings.
Go piss your pants on du.
the Fed needs to cut rates a bit more, imo. the economy is largely being propped up by AI, unfortunately.
We are climbing out of the steep Biden Recision.
The Fed needs to go away.
The market sets the rates anyway. While the rates were cut last time, the bond market was not as excited to cut rates.
The second the shut down is over, the government will go on its Merry Way to spend about 1.5T more than they take in. Adding trillions to the debt is not going to cause rates to go down.
The economy is in bad shape. It has been for a while. I think it’s still correcting after Covid. The current administration loves debt…so i don’t see things getting much better for the average citizen.
PADDING THE EMPLOYMENT RANKS ALWAYS HAS A FUTURE DOWN SIDE
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