10 Eye-Opening Charts Depicting the Shocking State of the Economy Right Now

From the price of a Thanksgiving dinner to credit delinquency, understand what is going on and have topics for family dinners.

Levi Borba
11 min readDec 12, 2022

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“Stop with the end-of-the-world porn”

This was a comment for one of my articles. It caught my eye.

Why would some of my articles be considered “end-of-the-world porn”?

I am not talking about the optimistic ones, like that about 5 countries that got stronger with all the turmoil of 2022, or the other explaining how a particular South American country defeated inflation.

But would my article from 7 months ago with economic predictions for the next 12 months (and most of the prognoses happened almost exactly as described so far) be considered doom porn?

Here is the thing: the difference between doom & gloom or happy & zappy only depends on your current side of the transaction balance.

Example:

Headline: Interest rates are soaring at a record pace.

Who is the reader? Are you loaded with credit card debt? In this case, I am writing doom porn.

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