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There is no recession in the USA.
by super256 9mo ago
There is no recession in the USA.
- spwa4 9mo agoWell, let's put it this way: There are the numbers reported on financial websites (that are best described as neither good nor bad. As in "it feels" there is about as much good news as bad. There is stock market performance, there is loan defaults, both lines going up into the right), and there is what my family and the folks back home and friends are experiencing. What I mean is this is the financial "good news": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jydjuFWyoD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jydjuFWyoD8
- xboxnolifes 9mo agoThere are a lot of people on HN that will quickly say "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric", but then the next day say "There isn't a recession, the S&P is up".
- danaris 9mo agoRight. And there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
- svara 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibecession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibecession
- sph 9mo agoGreat neologism. We should also have vibeflation, the disconnect between the bullshit inflation figures published by politicians and the real inflation people have been seeing in the past few years.
- Rexxar 9mo agoTechnically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ? (https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-104046.png?format=webp&w=768&q=100 https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sc...)
- NoGravitas 9mo agoI assume your phrasing is specifically intended to evoke "there is no war in Ba Sing Se"