If you haven't noticed because you're on the other side of the planet, the western world is doing badly financially. Let's be honest, most nations and also their Middle class, are taking strain financially.
Debt is up hugely. Both personal and sovereign. Debt-to-GDP is near 100% for many nations and beyond that for some. Which means they are already dead, they just don't know it yet. They have just deferred bankruptcy to a future date. Such debt cannot mathematically be repaid. Why do we continue kidding ourselves?
The reason may be because we have no choice. At least not the masses of us. And those who run the broken system - they are deliberately driving their wreck to destruction, with us as collateral damage.
The current financial system was built to favor the top, and then implode. And that last part is happening now in the west and rippling all around the world. The rich get richer and the rest get culled. All in a day's work for the elite banking families or whomever pulls the financial strings from the City of London, or wherever.
Below is a list of stats that act as clear examples of the current collapse happening in real time to USA. And others will be similar. These stats are indicators or flashing red lights. Those at the helm obviously see the iceberg ahead, yet they steer ever onward along this trajectory. And just like the Titanic, it's all engineered and deliberate.
#1 According to ADP, the U.S. lost 32,000 jobs last month. That was the largest drop in two and a half years.
This takes us back to the Covid19 era, when job losses were enforced via the lockdown. In other words were today at this very worst of times as far as job losses are concerned. And this time there's no lockdown. What did that tell you?
#2 The number of long-term unemployed workers in the United States has risen to the highest level since the pandemic.
Again stats show that we've fallen to pandemic levels of collapse here.
#3 Reuters is reporting that over 150,000 federal workers will permanently leave their jobs this week.
In many nations it's the government who creates the most employment visa civil servants and beurocrats. When this becomes too bloated, the only solution is to cut back on those jobs. Whether it's the current USA government shut down or something more permanent, the lifeline of a government job is shrinking.
#4 The number of movie jobs in Los Angeles County has fallen by 30 percent in just two years.
I wrote about this very topic in my previous post, if you want to know more. It's usually the cream or luxury brands and business that goes first I presume, when economic downturn occurs.
#5 Approximately 900 GM employees are facing indefinite layoffs.
The motor industry is a huge employer too, and this kind of layoff means that these former mainstays of industry are either scaling down or going bankrupt.
#6 Exxon has confirmed that it plans to eliminate 2,000 high paying jobs.
More job losses in big numbers.
#7 The tech industry has laid off more than 166,000 workers so far in 2025.
Wow, this is huge. It's it the first sector to get hit by AI taking over jobs? When companies suffer losses, they are forced to fire staff. And when AI can do the job apparently better than us, it seems inevitable.
#8 A 37-year-old tech worker that lost her job last November still hasn’t found work even though she has applied for hundreds of jobs.
This shows that a college degree is not enough any more. Not even experience is enough any more. This example illustrates why the culture of the "lie flat" is growing. There simply are no jobs, so "quiet quitting" is all that's left for many. You can't make progress even if you want to work hard, like you could in previous generations.
#9 According to Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports, only 48 percent of U.S. adults under the age of 30 currently have a full-time job.
In other words youth unemployment is at almost 50%. Thus is scary, especially because we're talking about the world's biggest economy... for now. In my South Africa youth unemployment figures like this are the norm. I've lived in an economy is a state of collapse for about 30 years now, if you look at the value of my local ZAR currency in relation to the dollar. It's you guys in the first world that are only getting it now. I hope you're ready guys.
#10 Our standard of living has been steadily declining for a very long time. In 1950, more than 50 percent of 30-year-olds in the United States owned a home and were married. Today, that figure has fallen to just 13 percent.
This stat speaks volumes about the systemic longterm collapse of the economy, the dollar and the American Dream. That Dream was taken away from you over the past few decades, slowly and quietly, all engineered to go like that from the start by the post WW2 economists. That Dream is gone and it's not coming back in a hurry, so get used to it. Adapt or die, as they say here in wildest Africa.
#11 44.4 percent of Americans struggle to make their housing payments each month.
Furthermore, the elite engineered the social system to implode like this. They planned for the family unit to be erased because it makes for an easier mass to control. We're the victims as this collapse now ruins us financially and psychologically as a society. The stats are available.
#12 46 percent of Americans worry about debt every single day.
This is because the capitalist system is built on debt, which means money printing or of thin air. The whole debt based system is unsustainable and built to enslave us and to collapse upon itself, as it's doing now. All pyramid schemes eventually crush the lowest members of the system. Debt is a tool with which you can enslave yourself. I've never been in debt and never taken on debt and that's why I can speak freely as a sovereign entity. Debt is a trap they set for you and your pay for the rest of your life. And now that many are forced by inflation and more wage growth to max out their multiple credit cards, they have you chained by your own desires.
#13 Prices were slashed on 19.9 percent of home listings last month as the U.S. housing bubble starts to burst.
Here again we have echoes of the 2007-8 housing bubble collapsing. It'll be worse this time. Many first world residents are already living in their cars. What a nightmare.
#14 49 percent of Americans say that the cost of living is the biggest challenge that they are facing.
Yes it's now about survival, and the first world is not used to being at rock bottom. They have been subsidized by printing paper dollars and using it to buy real goods and assets from the rest of the world, the third world, now cake the global south. That's my country.
#15 67 percent of U.S. workers are now living paycheck to paycheck.
Like everyone else in the global south. Only the rich can accumulate assets or use financial instruments to gain leverage or attract profits and wealth. The rest of us wage slaves work for our daily bread, never to get wealthy.
#16 The price of ground beef has risen more than 12 percent over the past year.
I'm totally vegetarian for 35 years so disagree with cow slaughter from the start. This is ironically one stat that I'm disinterested in as a result, though it tells us objectively that people are getting hit by higher prices that are also escalating faster. As the cow killing industry gets cut back by madman like the eugenicists Gates and Schwab, they will remove your much loved protein and feed you insects. Do you want fries with that?
#17 The number of cows in the United States has fallen to the lowest level since 1951.
As I said, the fading out of one food to bring in an artificial substitute in changing life for most people and might be hard to swallow, pun intended.
#18 The cost of living the American Dream for a lifetime has now reached 5 million dollars.
This last one is much like the 2008-9 housing bubble burst aka sub-prime mortgage loan crisis aka corrupt lending to unqualified borrowers. The difference now is that this time it's worse. The outcome will be worse because it's combined with all the other sectors melting down too.
Except stock market of course, for now. Which is a sure sign of an unbalanced or skewed financial system. The masses are being crushed by job losses and inflation, while the top 0.1% continue reaping the rewards of a system skewed in their favor by design.
Reference: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/18-numbers-which-clearly-show-what-direction-things-are-going
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