This will be the one for all Ages...
The revenue "recession" has now put trillions of dollars in stock-based management compensation in jeopardy. Companies are responding "aggressively" by laying off workers and/or freezing hiring. To fund stock buybacks. Because we know that will help aggregate corporate revenue:
Collectively, the pressure to put themselves out of business while at the same time cooking the books is growing by the minute...
Stock Buyback fund / S&P 500
"Profits fell to zero overnight, and the Global Ponzi ended abruptly, when they all stopped hiring at the same time. To maximize profit of course"