Julianne Malveaux: Who gains when the economy implodes?

by Julianne Malveaux

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not performing as expected, and unemployment rates are ticking up. Private sector employment shed 22,000 jobs last month, while forecasters thought that private sector employment would increase. The government shutdown will cost jobs, and that man who lives in the House that Enslaved People Built (HEPB) says he will lay off or fire more people each day that the government is shut down. And health care costs are rising, which is one of the reasons Democrats held firm on dealing with health care as a condition to keeping government open. Bottom line, our economy is precarious.

Implosion may be a strong