What Is Even Happening?

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Americans Feel Stuck.
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Americans Feel Stuck.

Some call this "The Languishing Era."

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Ted Bauer
Nov 26, 2024
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Here’s a good, semi-old-ish article from The Wall Street Journal.

It’s basically about how the intersection of once-low mortgage rates, once-high job offers (pandemic), and reduced-price gym memberships and meal kits — all of which are now faded out — have kept Americans stuck in their existence because of the cost of doing something else being too high…

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