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TWO Recession Indicators FLASH BRIGHT RED

2025-10-21 Entertainment
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Indicators of Economic Strain: Auto Loans, LSAT Spikes, and Healthcare Costs

Analyze three converging economic red flags—struggling auto borrowers, desperate graduate school applications, and impending healthcare sticker shock—to gauge the true health of the US economy below the record stock market highs.

Short Summary

  • Lower-income Americans face severe financial pressure, signaled by auto loan delinquencies nearing 6.5% highs.
  • A massive surge in LSAT registrations mirrors the Great Recession, indicating job market pessimism and credential-seeking behavior among the unemployed/underemployed.
  • The housing market is locked in a standoff driven by mismatched seller (3% mortgage) and buyer (8% mortgage) interest rates, preventing necessary price corrections.
  • The expiration of pandemic-era ACA subsidies introduces devastating premium hikes, potentially forcing millions off insurance rolls.

This discussion details how surface-level economic optimism obscures deep distress for middle and lower-income families. By examining auto loan performance, shifts in professional education demand, and critical changes to healthcare subsidies, this segment provides actionable insight into imminent recessionary pressures and policy failures.

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Top Comments (10)

@Scrollymog 2025-10-21

We're already in a Recession.

1.1k 64 replies
@TheRockerX 2025-10-21

40 billion more to Argentina then

810 30 replies
@VelcroPoodle 2025-10-21

"This shows Obama care sucks--" THEN DO SOMETHING BETTER. DON'T JUST MAKE IT WORSE.

703 66 replies
@Antiasshat 2025-10-21

My car is old but paid for. Just crossing my fingers it keeps running.

695 43 replies
@mustafakamal8608 2025-10-21

More money to Israel then

630 25 replies
@zetoflips 2025-10-21

It’s crazy how cooked we are and reefer madness is stuck in this doods head

427 24 replies
@TheSurgeIsHere 2025-10-21

Labor market is total dogshit. Ghost jobs. People are applying for thousands of jobs and never even get a response

414 32 replies
@jonachtenhagen9478 2025-10-21

The quote Ryan is looking for at a the 2:30 mark is "You can live in your car, you can't drive your apartment to work" which has been used since the 70s to highlight that during economic stress car loans are one of the last types of debt people allow to get delinquent.

161 4 replies
@typeer 2025-10-21

this will be looked back on as the biggest unforced error in American economic history

129 5 replies
@adelheidnetter1522 2025-10-21

Jobs were bad in 2008-2009, but everything was significantly cheaper.

46 2 replies

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