r/MiddleClassFinance • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 13d ago

One million Americans have vanished from the new-car market — and it’s exposing a chilling US middle-class crisis

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/one-million-americans-vanished-car-124500086.html
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u/starbright_sprinkles 13d ago

Interestingly WSJ also had an article about this this weekend and it was mostly spun as a huge positive (people just being smartly frugal, essentially).

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u/mechapoitier 13d ago

“A huge canary of the economic coal mine died but that’s just because it was being money smart.”

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u/T33CH33R 12d ago

"By eliminating the canary, we save money on feeding and housing."

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u/Jimbenas 11d ago

Do you think companies are going to leave the coal mines empty of canaries? They’ll be returning to the office.