So what is it going to be?
- Fed raising interest rates
- Housing market slow down
- Auto market slow down
- Inflation...
-War in Ukraine
You may be in the camp that there isn't going to be a collapse, or you may be wondering why it hasn't happened already...
Since this whole thing started, I've always said there is one very fragile thing, that will start this economy spiraling down hard, and nobody is talking about it. THIS quite simply, is.... "OT" (Overtime)
Per the attached link, it states that 62% of people are blue collar or (people being managed by other people) as they call it.
I would think a high percentage of these people are not salaried individuals and receive pay at an hourly rate.
So how many years have these people ( myself included) been putting in gobs of OT, a lot!
Those overtime premiums have been paying a lot of peoples car payments, house payments, rent payments, etc...
When the OT is gone, what are they going to do?
So the way I see it, the economists are so concerned with the unemployment rate, but it starts way before that...
I see it in the company I work for. Hiring has stopped and OT has dropped dramatically in the last two months, and people are NOT happy...
So in a nutshell, in these current times, people don't have to even loose their jobs just their OT and the effects are going to be catastrophic!
https://www.quora.com/How-many-blue...r-workers-are-there-in-the-United-States