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If Santa can get laid off two weeks before Christmas, just how bad are things?

Well: The Economic Times, Dec. 9 calls it “recession-like carnage” with over 1 million jobs lost in the first 11 months of 2025, a dismal marker last crossed in the pandemic shock and Great Recession of 2009.

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