Die Amerikaner können sich ihre Autos nicht mehr leisten und die Wall Street ist besorgt

Won’t stop them from undermining living wages

Wall Street is not worried it’s some of the highest stock prices ever

Now you’re worried? What did you think would happen when the cost of everything raised exponentially? 

The best thing i ever did was get rid of owning a vehicle completely.

Wait until people stop paying their credit cards.

I grew up in a rural American West and go there frequently. Cars? Yes, problematic, I’m sure.

But I see a whole lot of trucks out there that represent a very large percentage of the value entailed in the driver’s homes.

The AI bubble has sent the stock market soaring and data center spending has hidden the true state of our economy. The Magnificent Seven stocks account for most of the stock market gains and all but Apple are neck deep in AI spending. A Harvard economist found that without that AI date center spending, our GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1%.

Trump’s tariffs are further squeezing consumers when consumer spending is already stagnant and prices are rising. The AI bubble also sucks down power like my old Game Gear did with its six AAs leading to huge power bill increases.

Add to all that, the Big Beautiful bill threatens 700 rural hospitals with closure over medicaid cuts while it is setting our insurance costs to skyrocket. SNAP cuts will further pinch poorer folks spending and could lead to independent grocery stores that rely on SNAP spending to keep their stores open shuttering.

Our economy has been fucked for a while. The moment that AI bubble starts wobbling, everyone will finally realize it.

Good, in a way. I’d absolutely loveeee to see millions and millions of Americans collectively agree to absolutely BOYCOTT buying any news cars for an entire year, or anything new and non-essential for that matter, until government fixes some shit.. (a lot of shit). BOYCOTT the economy, boycott Wall Street. Take away their profits. It’s the biggest thing that scares them. You only vote with your money in the US

Maybe Wall Street should stop propping up and kowtowing to this administration, then.

Americans can no longer afford overpriced trash that should be 30-50% less than the msrp*****

There’s a bubble that will burst sooner rather than later, and it won’t be pretty. There are a lot of people who’s debt is increasing and others who are dipping into their savings. Many people will blame it on immigrants and the previous administration, because that’s what they tend to do.

Ha. We have seen this one before.

> much of which has been sold on to financial institutions in the form of asset-backed securities (ABS).

If you’ve bought a car from a dealer since COVID you’ll also know that you do NOT just offer to pay in cash and get discounts. They WANT to give you a loan, and not just to subprime borrowers with 10%+ APR, everyone. They get paid to generate ABS.

Does anyone remember what happens when demand for the collateralized debt asset class outstrips demand for the underlying?

Subprime lending coming back to bite them. Again.

It’s almost like an economy built on inflating quarterly results coupled with massive c-suite incentives isn’t sustainable for individuals. Surely not a bubble!

Wait wait wait capitalism isn’t working again? Tf is that possible

We are in desperate need for collapse and restructuring. I dont know how to adequately redistribute the $79B thats currently being held by the top 1% of of our population, but we should figure it out, and make it happen.

I mean, what did they expect to happen when they broke the middle class, turned the lower class into the extremely broke class, and push the people who were sitting on that line of being homeless into actual homelessness?

More wealth has been transferred to the ultra wealthy since Trump has been president than has ever happened in American history before. We’re all going broke and chewing on peanuts while they sit around and grill steaks that are $400 apiece. When this whole thing comes crashing down, corporations have no one to blame with themselves. You cannot run a country like this, if you bleed your middle class dry, everything crashes down. No one can pay for your products, your businesses go out of business and then your left, wondering why your business went out of business.

The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

I read somewhere last week the average new car costs $50,000. I do not understand how that is any way sustainable for a middle class American consumer whose average income is close to that amount per year. 

If corporations lay off their employees in the name of AI efficiency, there will not be enough millionaires to sustain all of them. Even though 7% of Americans are millionaires according to Wikipedia, those people only need a household worth of items. Even if they own two or three homes, they still will not purchase enough to sustain all companies. So then if we look outwards to other countries, the middle class has their own local economy and your multinationals are already there and have captured the market. The billionaires only win when everyone has enough to buy needs and wants. Otherwise we all loose. 

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