Forget the gross domestic product, this may be a more interesting measure of economic slowdown. After two pandemic-struck years of “unprecedented times”, resulting in rising interest rates, sky-high inflation, and GDP growth sluggish across the world, experts are looking beyond these metrics and uncovering unorthodox signals of an economic downturn. A Texas-based graduate student and stripper observed plummeting earnings in May 2022, and stated the other workers at the club picked up a similar pattern in the decrease of earnings, even in December — a…
