Source : Charles Hugh Smith
Date : 13 Juin 2006
Un rapport indique que 800.000 emplois directement menaçés par l'éclatement de la bulle immobilière.The report, released Wednesday, forecast a loss of 500,000 construction jobs and 300,000 jobs in the financial services sector from the housing slowdown, but noted that job losses would not spread across many industries, other than some limited pullbacks in manufacturing.
Aux Etats-Unis, 18 millions d'emplois sont liés directement ou indirectement à l'immobilier.After taking all these factors into account, it seems at least 18 million jobs are directly or indirectly dependent on the housing sector. That's 16% of the entire non-government workforce.
Avec une baisse de 50% des dépenses de construction, on imagine le désastre économique.Compare that to a 50% drop in construction spending. You're not just taking out the onsite construction jobs but the folks making the carpets, the truckers hauling lumber, the millwork employees, the door manufacturers, the furniture and appliance workers--the list goes on and on.
L'industrie de la construction offre les meilleurs salaires comparés aux industries. La perte de ces emplois serait une catastrophe.Construction is the highest-paying employment in the nation, so the loss of those jobs will heavily impact consumer spending.
Une perte de 5.600.000 emplois est plus réaliste.Put it all together and an estimate of 5.6 million jobs lost seems more realistic than a mere 800,000. That works out to 5% of total private employment in the nation.