Are you poor? I'm genuinely curious what info you have that poors are struggling to afford groceries. I live with and have lived with poors all year (and I myself make under 30k this year) and the price of groceries is the lowest of concerns. A drop in the bucket compared to rent/student loans/health care/car payments/etc. All the poors I know eat out every day and only struggle to buy cigarettes 🤷‍♂️ I'm sure there's some specific scenarios like a single mother working two jobs with four kids, but the 'poors' of today, at least my generation, are all singles with no dependents lmao. My evidence is all anecdotal tho

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It might be rallying on the fact that there will be more rate cuts than previously expected since the economic data and jobs revisions has come in dovish

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I never said surging or spiraling so dont know why you're quoting them like I did lmao The trend lines for prices are no longer declining is all I said. Jobs numbers have been revised down by literally like a million jobs last week lol

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Why would inflation, jobs, cpi, ppi, matter to you, when you own a Mag 7 company worth trillions and your equity is going ballistic?!

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Bro that’s just not what the numbers say: • CPI Aug 2025: +2.9% YoY → basically stable, not “surging.” Gasoline –6.6%, fuel oil –6.5%. The sticky stuff is shelter (+3.6%), utilities (piped gas +13.8%), medical services (+4.2%). • PPI: ~+2% YoY → way down from the double-digit 2021 spikes. • Jobs: Unemployment ~4%, which is historically low (average since 1950 is ~5.7%). Weekly jobless claims still under 250k. Labor force participation steady at ~62.7%. • Wages: Up ~4% YoY, moderating from 6%+ in 2022. • GDP: U.S. grew ~2.5% annualized last quarter. That’s stronger than Europe or Japan right now. • Manufacturing/Capex: Record reshoring — $200B+ announced in semis, EV batteries, and clean energy plants. FDI into the U.S. still the highest in the world. • Trade: Dollar still king. ~90% of global FX transactions involve USD, ~60% of global reserves still in USD. No sign of countries “trading around us” in a meaningful way. So no, jobs aren’t “collapsing,” CPI/PPI aren’t “spiraling,” and global capital hasn’t abandoned the U.S. The actual problem is sticky domestic costs (housing, utilities, services) — not some economic death spiral.

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Ppi and cpi are both back to increasing, jobs numbers are collapsing, countries around the world now hate america more than ever and are looking to trade around us

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I imagine we'll get a little correction next week when JPow says at his presser that they're going to continue watching the data while everyone asks him "so wen more cuts???" The economy seems fine even though jobs are bad. What if we continue cutting into a low interest rate environment, and companies invest even more in AI (not hiring and labor)? The market will fucking love that, though the Fed will be in a pickle.

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No. Okay ER, but future is bleak. Value trap. Software can't compete with AI and all the other choices out there. Too much competition. Even the jobs that use their software are under threat by AI

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Why? Because translators will lose jobs? Another AI job displacement..

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But those positions are not going to be filled by GenZ or Gen alpha. Those are high level management positions being taken now by millennials. The axe is on entry level jobs like data analyst and basic BIE roles which used to be fresh college graduates but not can be done by an AI agent. I'm not gonna lie, I am not tech savvy but now i can make dashboards with AI which previously required a full analyst to make

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