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transportation, warehousing, and utilities being a headlining loser here is the most striking.... perhaps?
by bt1a 9mo ago
transportation, warehousing, and utilities being a headlining loser here is the most striking.... perhaps?
- AnimalMuppet 9mo agoCertainly sounds like canaries telling us the rest of the economy is not doing great. (Not warning us that it's going to have problems. Telling us it already does.)
- HeyLaughingBoy 9mo agoThe economy canaries can't tell us anything: they're already dead.
- yencabulator 9mo agoThat's literally how the canaries would inform the miners about toxic gases.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9mo ago"Yes, Ted. That was the joke."
- sehansen 9mo agoHappily, this wasn't actually the case. Canaries faint long before they die and miners would carry small resuscitation chambers where the canaries could be reawakened in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. The Science and Industry Museum in Liverpool has one in their collection: https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscitator/ https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscit...
- yencabulator 9mo agoInteresting, but I frankly doubt the birds remained utterly unharmed. Birds are really sensitive to many gases, with the common anecdote being to not cook with nonstick pans if you have a parrot.
- toomuchtodo 9mo agoHeavy Truck Sales Collapsed in Q4; Down 32.5% Year-over-Year in December - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514490 - January 2026 (heavy trucks sales collapse is a recession indicator)
- germinalphrase 9mo agoCraig Fuller - the CEO of Freightwave - has been indicating that their freight data clearly suggests the US economy is in much worse shape than official reporting.
- dzonga 9mo agothis is usually more accurate than most indicators - as America's economy runs on trucks not donuts. more trucks on the road - more goods flowing - heavy machinery included, things getting built etc. less trucks - trouble