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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by ethbr1 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:09PM (#43257398)
Hard to have a strong consumer market with 17%+ youth unemployment.
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by xxpor on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:13PM (#43257440)
And the reason there's 17%+ youth unemployment is because there's a weak consumer market!

This is what happens when you structure your entire economy around exports: artificially weak currency, capital controls, artificially low wages, etc.

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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by dmoy on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:26PM (#43258281)
Well also the 50%+ savings rate for a long time (down to the 30%s maybe ten years ago, then back up for awhile)

If everyone in the US saved 30-50%+ it would not go well for our consumer market either.

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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by xxpor on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:39PM (#43259050)
Absolutely.
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