To: TobagoJack who wrote (218534 ) 12/17/2025 3:22:09 PM From: Box-By-The-Riviera™ Respond to maybe.Why the 4.6% Unemployment Rate Points to 6+ Million Unemployed Americans Coming Soon ... and How This Unemployment Crisis Will Force the Fed to Print Trillions! For the first time in history, a cyclical economic downturn is colliding with a structural technological revolution, and the result is likely to be a permanent underclass of millions of unemployable Americans. That’s the average. The Anatomy of a Collapse: Beyond the Headline Numbers The headline numbers, as grim as they are, only tell part of the story. The weakness is systemic. While the government-propped sectors of healthcare and construction added jobs, the productive economy is bleeding.average That’s 5.9 million newly unemployed Americans, joining the 7.5 million already out of work. That’s over 13 million people without a paycheck. A society with 10 million+ newly unemployed citizens is not a stable society. It is a powder keg waiting for a spark. Let’s Dig Into The Following: The secondary impact of the average unemployment rise of 3.6+% and ~6+ million out of work is far more devastating: a wave of defaults that will ripple through the entire financial system. Mortgages will go unpaid, triggering foreclosures. Auto loans will default, flooding the used car market and cratering values. Credit card companies will see delinquency rates spike, forcing them to write off billions in losses. At that scale, the financial system does not just strain; it breaks. The surge in youth unemployment is the most telling sign. These are the entry-level jobs, the junior roles, the first rungs on the career ladder that are being sawed off by A.I. By the time the mass layoffs in the professional classes become visible, the outcome will already be locked in. What we are witnessing is not the shock of the crisis itself; it is the setup. The dry rot has taken hold, and the foundation of the American labor market is about to turn to dust. This time is different. In every previous recession, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Workers who were laid off knew that, eventually, the economy would recover, and they would be rehired. That assumption is now dangerously obsolete.The jobs that are being automated away during this downturn are not coming back. The wave of unemployment-driven defaults will not be contained within individual households. It will metastasize into a full-blown banking crisis that will make 2008 look like a dress rehearsal. The Federal Reserve will have no choice but to intervene. They will kick quantitative easing into high gear, purchasing toxic assets from banks to prevent a systemic collapse. They will lower interest rates to zero, or even into negative territory. And they will coordinate with the Treasury to inject trillions of dollars into the system to keep it from imploding. And the solution for the people will be sold to them as a compassionate and necessary safety net. It will be called Universal Basic Income (UBI), enhanced unemployment benefits, or some other euphemism for helicopter money. It is already a widely debated topic among economists, tech leaders, and policymakers, because they see the train wreck that is coming. The government will choose to sacrifice the currency to prevent mass social unrest. It is already baked in the cake and the purchasing power of every dollar you hold will be systematically destroyed.
