1970-01-01 6 hours ago

Recessions are a staple of a market correcting itself. On average, about 1 recession every 6–10 years. Yes, believe it or not, they are common. What you need to worry about is a depression. Those are not healthy.

  • garciasn 21 minutes ago

    For someone who doesn’t know better: doesn’t stable and predictable economic policy keep us from market fluctuations that create recession?

  • layer8 5 hours ago

    There are a number of confounding factors currently affecting markets, making it difficult to judge what might constitute a healthy correction or not.

scott82anderson 3 hours ago

True. However, on other side of the coin, some people are interpreting job losses through the AI hype lens rather than the actual cause of a slowing economy.

ath3nd 3 hours ago

I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

Mostly because I hope it will stop the neverending onslaught of articles and blog posts on HN from folks who giddily insist on telling the world how Claude changed their life and how now they can produce bad code 10x faster than before.