Job losses just hit a 14 year high, with the recent loss of almost one-quarter million more jobs. You will be delighted to know that your all-knowing, all-seeing government has finally agreed to use the official term "recession".
So yes, Virginia, there will be a slowdown throughout the economy, and one of the parts traditionally hit hardest will be the area of elective purchases such as expensive hobbies. This effect will be magnified by the current economic and manufacturing problems plaguing the Chinese, who make everything in the first place, and the difficulties in extracting the melamine from future model kits.
There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon, however; the Chinese have announced that they have been secretly experimenting with replacing cast rosin kits with castings made from recycled contaminated infant formula which should be cheaper given the over abundance of raw material at the present time.
There is also research underway towards replacing the expensive electric motors in locomotives with cheaper and more reliable wind-up clockwork mechanisms, in order to utilize the mechanisms from tens of thousands of rejected Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks.
Recycling is the answer - just don't drink the water.
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