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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by erehweb on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:41AM (#33596743)
US GDP was up 2.6% annualized in 2022Q3 (https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product) and unemployment was 3.7% in Oct2022.
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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by sokoloff on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:46AM (#33596851)
Worth making two observations on that GDP figure:

More importantly: that's a real (inflation backed out) not nominal (inflation ignored) figure

Less importantly: that's an advance estimate, not a final figure.

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