US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by Eric_WVGG on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:23AM (#46528273)

It's the rate of change. Things like NAFTA took many years to implement, and were debated and developed in the open. Everyone understood what would happen to the economy and that there would be a decade of transition.

Nobody announces the largest tariffs since the 1930s overnight, and selectively increases or dismantles them from week to week. Just look at this line graph: https://www.usfunds.com/resource/americas-tariff-rate-hits-t...

A huge part of our power was that we were safe and predictable and that's gone forever.

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by hdgvhicv on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:25PM (#46529288)

It could come back. Trump being removed, Vance returning to normal, then normal for the next decade and it would just be a crazy blip.

But it’s not just Trump. This is what America wants.

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by Eric_WVGG on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:14PM (#46545147)

That's what I thought after the first Trump administration. But the fact that we re-elected him proves that it wasn’t a one-off, we will always be four years away from the possibility of a wild regime change.

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by hdgvhicv on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:09AM (#46551664)

That’s why it would jar to be Vance and this reigime, Kay without Trump. 10 more years of both red and blue and enough change to undo and prevent this in the future could get it out.

Germany was reformed, Japan was reforms. These things take time

But the problem is the American people want this. This isn’t some dictator in Korea or Iraq or Venezuela, this is someone with full democratic support. There are many checks and balances in the American system to avoid a single person doing this amount of damage without having widespread support.

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by trinix912 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:05PM (#46530004)

> A huge part of our power was that we were safe and predictable and that's gone forever.

That is a big deal. The US has for a long time been seen as a stable economy that's easy to trade with because policy changes would take a long time to come into effect by which everyone had had the time to adjust.

Compared to the various stuff that was happening in Europe in the previous decades (at least here in the east) the US were a stable safe heaven where you could trust things wouldn't drastically change overnight.

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by hunterpayne on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:39PM (#46532315)

"that's gone forever."

Your US history teacher failed you if you think even for a moment that is true.

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