Super Bad
Elon Musk has been getting a lot of attention lately for…well, whatever he does. Late last week, he told Tesla workers that he was expecting a return to the office for a full 40-hour work week, then said he might trim ten percent of the company’s workforce because he has a “super bad” feeling about the economy.
That’s not a technical term used by economists…but it sure is one many of us can relate to. No, we can’t pin it down to something like the consumer price index, unemployment rate, fed reserve action on interest rates…but we just don’t have a good feeling about things. Call it “super bad”.
You can probably relate; it’s the feeling you get when you check out at the grocery store…provided you could even get the things you were shopping for. Or the feeling when you imagine a $5 bill, complete with Honest Abe’s picture, floating away in the wind with every gallon of gas you put into your car.
If ever there were a businessman this young century who threw caution to the wind in the face of naysayers, it’s Elon Musk. So if even he thinks things are “super bad”…it’s worthy of note. Of course, he could be anticipating even more government backlash to his straying from the Democrat party line…that certainly has started, right down to the president lowering himself to hurl shots at Musk from the presidential podium.
We’ve heard of things like recession, depression, transitory period, and all those other more specific terms. But somehow, Musk’s use of the phrase “super bad” may have most accurately summed it all up.
