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hgomersall • today at 5:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That might be the case, but those large construction projects being paused means someone losing their job. We're literally paying people to make people unemployed.


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JumpCrisscross • today at 5:44 PM

> those large construction projects being paused means someone losing their job

Sometimes. Sometimes it shuffles them to other work, often less resource-intensive work. There is a lot of latent demand for construction.

We have precedence for supply shocks being cooled by rate hikes without causing an unemployment spike.