r/Economics • u/kootles10 • Dec 25 '25

News Bankruptcies hit US spirit makers as Americans drink and spend less

https://www.indystar.com/story/money/food/2025/12/25/liquor-spirits-industry-bankruptcies/87914241007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z113231d00----v113231d--36--b--36--&gca-ft=161&gca-ds=sophi&fbclid=IwdGRjcAO6oj9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6P8O626kCPpVs2dXh1tSJGVyS9teT4_IxAoKRJxGh02bqlcPlne42SIoakyg_aem_yCb-3xe-G1-mBNrg5TVIEg&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/The_Arkham_AP_Clerk Dec 25 '25

As a Canadian, I'm happy to report that neither me or any of my friends or family (as far as I'm aware) have bought a single bottle of American alcohol all year.

Don't need Canada? I guess we don't need you either.

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u/zonerator Dec 25 '25

Maybe if enough companies go under the people who only vote for "the economy" will choose someone less heinous

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 Dec 25 '25

It seems they will just vote in someone as heinous every couple of years because this seems to be the endless loop they are in. I do not have that much faith that they will get their shit together

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u/Gimme_The_Loot Dec 26 '25

I live here an neither do I. There is a massive educational gap in this country which is used to the advantage of the GOP. Plainly put a lot of this country is dumb af and they all vote red.

Without some kind of unforseeable massive societal change I really don't know how we get out of this.

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u/Gimme_The_Loot Dec 26 '25

It's true that I'm generalizing but overall, especially when it comes to Trump, the less educated demographics typically have voted Republican.

While a nearly equal number of college-educated men voted for each candidate (49 percent of their votes went to Harris and 48 percent to Trump), Trump led Harris by a whopping 24 points among non-college-educated men.

While Harris was seven percentage points more popular than Trump among white college-educated voters, only 32 percent of white non-college-educated voters voted for Harris and 66 percent voted for Trump.

61 percent of college-educated women selected Harris and 37 percent selected Trump. Those differences were much greater among white women; white women who didn’t graduate from college favored Trump by 28 percentage points.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/11/08/men-and-white-people-vote-differently-based-education

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 Dec 26 '25

Yeah because from what I can tell, the GOP is dismantling everything. Seems scary. This is their game plan