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Ask HN: What's Going on with the US Economy?

Just saw the news about Dropbox doing 20% layoffs. There have been at least 600k to 1 million people laid off since 2022. While job market is absolutely bonkers, I saw on LinkedIn that US is posting strong growth.How is this possible? Granted tech is only 8% of US job market, but layoffs in tech are due to stagnant market and state of the economy if we take reasons given for layoffs...

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