Despite decades of apocalyptic announcements that the time has come when the USD will lose its value and dominance, I am always surprised that people do not realize that most world currencies will collapse sooner than the USD. The US has always been extremely aggressive in defending its currency and national interests, and I have no doubt that it will be so in the future.
The US dollar is not down. It’s at highs right now. Hence why we lost the EURUSD parity earlier this week. Right now there is no recession confirmed because sales are still strong, most companies are making tons of money and labor market is tight.
The first hint of a recession will be when we start to get bad unemployment numbers which seem very positive right now. I think towards the end of 2022 we might start to see a recession.
Maybe it's just rumours, but I've been reading and hearing for some time now that the biggest companies in the US will lay off people, and in rather large numbers - Coinbase announces that it will lay off as many as 1100 people, which amounts to about 18% of the total number of employees.
After a banner year for tech, layoffs are here. In fact, as of mid-July, more than 28,000 workers in the U.S. tech sector have been laid off in mass job cuts so far in 2022, according to a Crunchbase News tally.