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Credit-Card Delinquency Rates Were Worst on Record in Fed Study

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The economy is terrible for most people and this AI driven loosening of financial conditions is only benefitting a small number of wealthy people at the expense of prolonging the pain for most. The longer the stock mania keeps the Fed from lowering interest rates the worse things will get for most Americans.

What numbers are you using to say the economy is terrible for most people?

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/inflation-report-ma...

“Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have seen average prices increase more than 20% overall.”

Inflation has been absolutely devastating to the middle class. Also credit card interest rates are now 20-30% APR for most people, making them even harder to pay off when you are carrying balances on them from month to month.

Home affordability and or homelessness, inflation, interest rates, layoffs, crime, gruesome jobs reports showing net loss on full time careers, growing defaults in credit, insurance cos pulling out of whole states, a war in Europe, cancer rates... I feel at this point it is common knowledge the general person is not doing well. We're working harder, for less, and everything is more expensive.

These aren't numbers

here's some US numbers. The situation is similar in most developed countries, if you care enough go search out those numbers.

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-affordability/

affordability is decreasing, home prices are increasing, dollar buying value is decreasing.

it's not really some mysterious phenomena, financial analysts have been implying that the interest rates would cause most of this behavior for 10+ years at least.

The Calls for Help Coming From Above the Poverty Line https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/poverty-america-low-income-eme...

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