#économy
Why is the head of the DOJ talking about the economy instead of crime?
"Why are y'all so concerned about rich men raping children when we could, instead, be talking about how much more MONEY they got this year? Focus on what matters, like I do!"

--Pamela Jo
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
It's almost like tying yourself to the price of one commodity and actively trying to eliminate diversifying your economy, is a bad idea... hmm..
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
130,000 is pretty weak considering the economy needs 100,000 jobs to keep up with population growth. Yet it's portrayed as "better than expected".

What is amazing is that 2025 was revised from 584,000 to 181,000: a HUGE shift down, and that is NOT the headline!
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
-- and the automation was pointed *directly at* the largest sector of England's economy, textiles. Which was at 20%. The largest sector of our current economy is finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing -- which is also maybe the most vulnerable to AI? Or not?
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Catholic Church AND HIV/AIDS? In this economy?
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
or they have a basic understanding of opportunity cost and see how our economy of blood is structured to funnel massive amounts of money to arms sales to kill, to make sure its not in productive uses. Than there is the right wing lobbying done on behalf of apartheid that helps the most corrupt
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
tRump said in an NBC interview that the economy is now the tRump economy, one year after taking office. Therefore, in 2021, during Biden’s term, all that inflation in 2021 was tRump’s fault?
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
funny how meanwhile the people actually building shit—infrastructure, code that works, products people need—are grinding for wages while these dudes treat the economy like a casino where they're the main character.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I’d say there is currently a 5-10% chance of this future in the next two decades and a 100% chance of less total but still severe job displacement. Maybe it’ll just work out, as all older automations have, and the bigger economy will invent new jobs and things go on.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Yes. Get your plans ready for: what if most humans have no economic value. What then? And a big fat UBI paid by the hot AI/robot economy is a start but… who gets the beach house in that world?
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The economy suffering directly due to Americans mistrust and confusion with their government along with misallocation of resources. We are literally a few bullets away from actually getting a chance to fix all this finally
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I can promise you if you removed the rich guy in the oval office and his rich lackeys, the economy will perk up.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Trump’s smoke and mirrors economy becomes clear. We now know that the US economy ONLY created a dismal 181K in total for 2025.

The numbers were off by 584K!!! His tariffs, corruption and deportations are to blame.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Even in the cyberpunk dystopia scenario, it is not clear to me how AI companies will make a profit if they have made nearly everybody unemployed. At some point an economy has to be more than a few venture capitalists handing the same spreadsheet numbers back and forth between each other forever.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Pam Bondi deflecting away from the Epstein files with praising the economy, we all know is in the shitter, while the victims of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are sitting behind her is on a whole new level of sycophantic disgusting behavior.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
if anything i've ever seen calls for congressional oversight, it's this kinda shit. totally insane and enormously costly to the economy for no reason
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
As they f’g should. Trump has managed to destroy the US economy, upend world trade, and in a year the US trading partners have realigned with others and moved on, many permanently. Congress needs to do their damn job. I’m talking about Republicans mostly.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
AI sounds like a useful tool. However, the people that run AI companies and those responsible for jamming into every fucking thing in order to prop up a self-dealing asset bubble that’s going to eventually ruin the economy have ruined AI for me at least until those said same people are [redacted].
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Exactly. My countries economy, and I'd say a lot of companies at this point, are pretty much propped up on this bet. When the subsidies stop and everyone realizes just how expensive it is every time they prompt an agent it is all going to go *pop*.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Right now I would settle for the economy turning around and finding a remote job.
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I hate how people seem to buy into the idea that the stock markets are indicators of the economy. It's probably because the owning class has thrown them a bone in their retirement plans. Screw that, groceries are expensive. I can't buy cheap junk from overseas anymore. The economy sucks.
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Unless we rein it in, technology will be the end of us.

AI and the Coming Jobless Economy
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
AI and the Coming Jobless Economy
AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated fairly. Here’s what we should we be considering now.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Which institution is next on the reactionary agenda after the billionaires ruin journalism, education, the internet, the economy, and science? Gotta be running out of legacy infrastructure to strip for parts at this point.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM