Well, let's put it this way: There are the numbers reported on financial websites (that are best described as neither good nor bad. As in "it feels" there is about as much good news as bad. There is stock market performance, there is loan defaults, both lines going up into the right), and there is what my family and the folks back home and friends are experiencing.
There are a lot of people on HN that will quickly say "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric", but then the next day say "There isn't a recession, the S&P is up".
Great neologism. We should also have vibeflation, the disconnect between the bullshit inflation figures published by politicians and the real inflation people have been seeing in the past few years.
Technically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ?
spwa4|1 month ago
What I mean is this is the financial "good news":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jydjuFWyoD8
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(https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sc...)