{"id":267502,"date":"2026-05-26T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/why-business-wants-a-recession\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:59:04","slug":"why-business-wants-a-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/why-business-wants-a-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Business Wants a Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><span class=\"photoview__desc-text\">  Recession Economic Crisis<\/span><img src=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a90c6d1b648c8318e0b7b52aa788799d.jpg\"  \/><span class=\"article__news-services--label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article__news-services--list\">\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"Telegram\" data-name=\"telegram\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"X\" data-name=\"twitter\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ted  RallGive Jerome Powell credit for candor: the Fed chairman admits that his policy of increasing interest rates to fight inflation might push the economy into a recession. \u201cNo one knows whether this process will lead to a recession or, if so, how significant that recession would be,\u201d he recently told reporters.If it does, one sector won\u2019t be entirely displeased: employers.According to the Deloitte accounting firm, a typical Fortune 500 company spends $1 to $2 billion a year on payroll, averaging between 50% and 60% of total spending. Controlling labor costs, unsurprisingly, is a top priority for employers.In the boom-bust cycle of labor-management negotiations, the post-pandemic Great Resignation has triggered a labor shortage, a phenomenon we rarely witness that tends to fizzle out fast. Workers are quitting and retiring early, tanking the labor force participation rate. Those who remain enjoy the upper hand at interviews that feel like the job prospect is sizing up the company rather than the other way around. Labor shortages are driving up salaries, shortening hours, prompting signing bonuses and forcing bosses to accommodate people who prefer to work at home. Just 8% of office workers in Manhattan are back in the office a full five days a week.The most recent data published, for June, finds that wages and salaries soared 16.8% on an annualized basis as benefit costs went up 14.4%.Workers, angry and resentful after decades of frozen real wages and merciless downsizing, are becoming demanding. This reversal of a power dynamic in which workers were supplicants and bosses called the shots has also strengthened labor unions that had been losing membership for years.<strong>This, some CFOs may be thinking, calls for a recession.<\/strong>Company profit margins are at a 70-year record high, up 25% each of the last two years as the result of raising prices during the pandemic. This means that even allowing for an 8% inflation rate, a generic S&#38;P 500 corporation should easily be able to ride out the average 26% earnings decline suffered in the most recent typical recessions that took place in 1990, 2000 and 2020. (A bigger crisis like the 2008-09 Great Recession, which reduced earnings by 57%, is another matter.)No corporate officer would voluntarily reduce earnings. Or would they, in order to get something more valuable: regaining leverage over labor?Traditional conservative allies of big business are openly arguing in favor of higher unemployment. \u201cThe recent drop in work and labor force participation \u2014 particularly among young workers \u2014 is troubling [my emphasis],\u201d writes Sarah Greszler in a white paper for the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. \u201cJob openings, at 11.3 million, remain near record highs, and record percentages of employers report unfilled positions and compensation increases.\u201dGreszler summarizes: \u201cContinued low levels of employment [sic] will reduce the rate of economic growth, reduce real incomes and output, result in greater dependence on government social programs, require higher levels of taxation, and exacerbate the US\u2019s already precarious fiscal situation.\u201dWorkers, of course, feel like they can finally breathe. High demand for labor means that they can quit positions where they feel unappreciated and\/or under-compensated, pack up and move to another state and create a healthier balance between their family and work lives. The current situation is anything but \u201ctroubling.\u201dExecutives at employers like Apple, Tesla and Uber have had enough of workers calling the shots. They\u2019re demanding that people get back to work \u2014 at the office \u2014 or find another job. \u201cA quickly shifting employer-employee dynamic could give companies the ammunition to take a harder line against the full-time work-at-home arrangements that many employees have pushed for, according to corporate policies experts. <\/p>\n<p>&#34;In fact, they say more companies are likely to start pressing staffers to come back to the office \u2014 at least a few days a week,\u201d reports CNBC. \u201cThe hybrid workforce is not going to go away, but the situation where employees refuse to come to the workplace at all is not likely to hold,\u201d Johnny C. Taylor Jr. of the Society for Human Resource Management tells the network.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps no one has told CEOs that at-home work empowers them too. Rather than hiring security goons to escort laid-off workers past their terrorized colleagues, companies can memory-hole the condemned by deactivating their remote-access passwords. Who\u2019ll notice one less square on the Zoom screen?I\u2019m not subscribing to a dark Marxist suspicion that CEOs, the Fed and other powers-that-be are conspiring to slam the brakes on an economy that would otherwise be coming in for a soft landing as pent-up consumer demand from the pandemic naturally ebbs, in order to return their recently empowered employees to their rightful status as wage slaves. Powell and his fellow governors are doing what comes naturally to government, treating a disease based on a diagnosis that is close to a year out of date and, reasonably, including wage increases as part of their calculus of what constitutes a major driver of the inflation rate.Business, however, does see what\u2019s coming. If the captains of industry aren\u2019t worried enough to be calling their pet politicians to demand an end to interest-rate hikes, one reason might be that they see a silver lining to the next recession.(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. You can support Ted\u2019s hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on <u>Patreon<\/u>.)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220927\/why-business-wants-a-recession--1101291315.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recession Economic Crisis Ted RallGive Jerome Powell credit for candor: the Fed chairman admits that his policy of increasing interest rates to fight inflation might push the economy into a recession. \u201cNo one knows whether this process will lead to a recession or, if so, how significant that recession would be,\u201d he recently told reporters.If &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1309],"tags":[2331,8190,2094],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Business Wants a Recession - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/why-business-wants-a-recession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Business Wants a Recession - World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recession Economic Crisis Ted RallGive Jerome Powell credit for candor: the Fed chairman admits that his policy of increasing interest rates to fight inflation might push the economy into a recession. \u201cNo one knows whether this process will lead to a recession or, if so, how significant that recession would be,\u201d he recently told reporters.If &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/why-business-wants-a-recession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-26T20:59:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a90c6d1b648c8318e0b7b52aa788799d.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"description\":\"Breaking News &amp; 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