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Both states and households have only slowly spent down the savings they amassed during those pandemic years, so the money has continued to trickle through the economy like a slow-release booster shot. On top of that, government spending has remained elevated as the Biden administration has begun to make sweeping infrastructure and climate investments.
Thank you Jerome Powell, head of the US private bank cartel, for raising the Federal Reserve interest rates, in order to induce layoffs, in order to scare workers into accepting meager-to-no salary increases.
And reversing all the gains we as workers had made recently.
I don’t really see evidence of that in the statistics.
Forbes, Dec. 2023: Over 305,000 Laid Off In Major U.S. Cuts This Year—Here Are The Biggest
CNN, Nov. 2022: Unemployment Statistics Are Misleading. Economic Hardship Is Much Worse