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Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse?  Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious.  The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace our rapidly aging vehicles, debt levels are exploding, and the proportion of the country that is living paycheck to paycheck has been steadily rising.  Our economy is a mess, and America’s middle class is getting smaller and smaller.  Sometimes I feel like I am watching a very tragic version of musical chairs.  If you are still holding on to your chair, you should be very thankful, because more people are slipping out of the middle class and into poverty with each passing day. If you are old enough, you can still remember a time when many middle class families would purchase a new vehicle every few years. Sadly, today most of us are being forced to get as much mileage out of our rapidly aging vehicles as we possibly can.  As a result, the average age of the passenger vehicles traveling America’s roads has reached an all-time record high… This should be the best of times for the people who help keep America’s cars running. There have never been as many on the road—around 290 million light vehicles—and they have never been so old. One reason for that is good news: They are better made. Getting the odometer past 100,000 miles has gone from being noteworthy to normal. Thirty years ago the average passenger car was about 8.4 years old and today that is 13.6 years. Even keeping our aging vehicles repaired has become exceedingly difficult. These days, if the mechanic hands you a repair bill for less than a thousand dollars that is a reason to celebrate. In the old days, you could get a really nice used vehicle for a thousand dollars. Of course groceries have become insanely expensive as well.  Earlier today, I came across a USA Today article that discussed the fact that the average household in Miami spends 327 dollars at the grocery store per trip… Many longtime Miamians say they’ve felt this way since the pandemic transformed much of their city. As New Yorkers and Californians faced lockdown orders and restrictions, many flocked to Florida, with the largest increase of New Yorkers moving to Miami where they could benefit from tax and mandate breaks while working remotely. But along with having the largest net population gain of any state in the country came exploding living and housing costs. Housing prices have risen almost 50%, according to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index released last month. Grocery prices shot up. (An average household spent about $327 per trip). So did electric bills. A carton of eggs last year cost $5. 327 dollars used to be a lot of money. Now it will just buy you one cart of food. I warned my readers that the economic conditions that we were witnessing in Venezuela would eventually come here, and now it has happened. As I discussed a few days ago, core consumer prices have actually risen for 53 months in a row. Our cost of living crisis is out of control, and there is no end in sight. As they struggle to pay their bills, many Americans are turning to credit cards for some relief. As a result, credit card debt balances have soared to record high levels… The average American household credit card balance as of the third quarter of 2024 was about $10,757 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new study. The personal-finance website WalletHub onFriday released its new Credit Card Debt Study, which found that consumers added $21 billion in debt during the third quarter of 2024. Early results for the fourth quarter of the year show preliminary data for October at a new record high for credit card debt in the month, in absolute terms. As credit card debt levels rose, it was inevitable that more Americans would start getting behind on their payments, and that is precisely what has happened… Are you feeling financially stressed as 2024 comes to a close? You’re not alone, not even close. In fact, 7.8 million Americans have delayed payments on at least one of their credit accounts this year. That’s a million more than in 2023. This is really bad news for the economy as a whole, because our economy is highly dependent on consumer spending. You can’t get blood from a stone, and restaurants all over the country are learning the hard way that most consumers simply cannot afford to eat out as regularly as they once did… Seafood giant Red Lobster, Italian chain Buca di Beppo, fish taco eatery Rubio’s Coastal Grill and the owner of burger and pizza chains BurgerFi and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza are among those that have sought to reorganize through bankruptcy this year. Hooters of America is also huddling with lenders and advisers amid revenue declines, Bloomberg reported. Shares of Dine Brands Global Inc., the parent of Applebee’s and IHOP, are down about 30% year-to-date, while shares of Bloomin’ Brands Inc., which owns Outback Steakhouse, dropped to near 2020 lows last month after it reported a decline in US same-store sales. Yes, a “restaurant apocalypse” has begun. When I first started using that term, a lot of people thought that I was exaggerating. But of course I was not exaggerating one bit. There was a time when it seemed like just about anyone in this nation could achieve “the American Dream” if they just worked hard enough. But now we have reached a point where only 31 percent of Americans believe that they have “made it” in life… Despite being the land of opportunity, the American Dream remains frustratingly out of reach for most Americans, with a mere 31% believing they’ve financially “made it” in life. Sadly, that figure is even lower for Baby Boomers… However, the picture becomes less optimistic with age. Only 27% of baby boomers feel they’ve reached financial success, and among those who haven’t, just one-third believe they ever will. The survey found that Americans consider their path to financial success threatened by various external factors, including presidential elections (46%), interest rate changes (45%), and the job market (42%). After working so hard for so many years, only 27 percent of Baby Boomers feel like they have “made it” in life. Well, that is quite depressing. Things could have turned out far differently.  Many of us ranted and raved for years that things would turn out this way, but most of the country did not want to listen. Bad decisions lead to bad results. Our leaders have been making comically bad decisions for decades, and thanks to them we now have a complete and utter nightmare on our hands. Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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As a species, we’ve come to the awareness that we’re a minuscule part of a vast Universe defined by galaxy superclusters and the large-scale structure of the Universe. Driven by a healthy intellectual curiosity, we’re examining our surroundings and facing the question posed by Nature: how did everything get this way? We only have incremental answers to that huge, almost infinitely-faceted question. And the incremental answers are unearthed by our better instruments, including space telescopes, which get better and more capable as time passes. Enter the James Webb Space Telescope. One of the reasons NASA and their partners built and launched the James Webb Space Telescope is to study the history of galaxy formation and to understand how they evolved into what we see today. That involves observing galaxies, galaxy clusters, galaxy superclusters, and the complex network of sheets, voids, and filaments that comprise the large-scale structure of the Universe. It also involves observing proto-clusters, the early stage of a galaxy cluster. They’re like building blocks for the cosmic web, which collapse and merge to form clusters and superclusters. The Spiderweb protocluster is an ancient and well-studied object in the early Universe. More than 100 individual galaxies are forming a cluster at redshift z = 2.16, meaning it took more than 10 billion years for its light to reach us. “We are observing the build-up of one the largest structures in the Universe, a city of galaxies in construction.”Jose M. Pérez-Martínez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Protoclusters are one key to understanding the Universe, and in two new papers, researchers present the results of the JWST’s observations of the Spiderweb protocluster. Among other things, the results show that gravity doesn’t play as large a role as thought in the formation of a cluster. The difficulty in observing the Spiderweb is that it’s obscured by a healthy amount of cosmic dust. The dust blocks visible light but allows infrared light through. Since the JWST is an enormously powerful infrared telescope, its gaze has revealed things previously hidden from astronomers. “We are observing the build-up of one the largest structures in the Universe, a city of galaxies in construction,” explained Jose M. Pérez-Martínez of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain. “We know that most galaxies in local galaxy clusters (the biggest metropolises of the Universe) are old and not very active, whereas in this work we are looking at these objects during their adolescence. As this city in construction grows, their physical properties will also be affected. Now, Webb is giving us new insights into the build-up of such structures for the first time.” The JWST can observe hydrogen gas more thoroughly than other telescopes. Astronomers often observe hydrogen-alpha (h-alpha) emissions to probe galaxies. h-alpha emissions are a specific type of light emitted when electrons transition between energy levels. However, there’s another type of infrared hydrogen emission called Paschen-beta emissions (Pa-beta) that the JWST can observe. It’s emitted by different electron transitions in hydrogen and is a valuable tracer of the star formation rate (SFR) in galaxies. While the JWST isn’t specifically designed to single out these emissions, it can observe the infrared wavelengths that include the Pa-beta line. The two new papers based on the JWST observations are: JWST/NIRCam Pa-beta Narrowband Imaging Reveals Ordinary Dust Extinction for H? Emitters within the Spiderweb Protocluster at z = 2.16 JWST/NIRCam Narrowband Survey of Pa-beta Emitters in the Spiderweb Protocluster at z = 2.16 These observations revealed the presence of new, previously undetected galaxies in the protocluster that were obscured by dust. Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has found new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. They found that gravitational interactions in these dense regions are not as important as previously thought. This annotated image shows the galaxy distribution in the Spiderweb protocluster as seen by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera). The galaxies are annotated by white circles, and the collection of gravitationally-bound galaxies is identified in the centre of the image. A selection of these galaxies are featured as individual close-ups at the bottom of the image. Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer “As expected, we found new galaxy cluster members, but we were surprised to find more than expected,” explained Rhythm Shimakawa of Waseda University in Japan. “We found that previously-known galaxy members (similar to the typical star-forming galaxies like our Milky Way galaxy) are not as obscured or dust-filled as previously expected, which also came as a surprise.” The characteristics of the dust show that gravitational interactions aren’t playing as large a role as thought. If there were gravity-driven mergers, the dust production would be higher as mergers trigger rapid SFRs. However, these observations show that the dust is being produced smoothly rather than abruptly. “This can be explained by the fact that the growth of these typical galaxies is not triggered primarily by galaxy interactions or mergers that induce star-formation,” added Helmut Dannerbauer of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain. “We now figure this can instead be explained by star formation that is fueled through gas accumulating at different locations all across the object’s large-scale structure.” “These results support the scenario for which dust production within the main galaxy population of this protocluster is driven by secular star formation activities fueled by smooth gas accretion across its large-scale structure,” the authors write in the first paper. “This downplays the role of gravitational interactions in boosting star formation and dust production within the Spiderweb protocluster, in contrast with observations in higher redshift and less evolved protocluster cores.” “We find no correlation between the dustiness of our sample of HAEs and their distribution in phase space (spectroscopic sample) or as a function of the projected clustercentric radius or local density,” the authors of the first paper explain. If gravity-driven mergers were behind the star and dust formation, it would be clumpy. The second paper’s original goal was to make a deep-line survey aimed at Pa-beta emitters (PBEs). It used a unique narrow-band filter on the NIRCam that’s less sensitive to dust extinction. They ended up detecting new member candidates in the Spiderweb Protocluster. Interestingly, not all of the h? emitters are also Pa-beta emitters. The researchers narrowed their Pa-beta emitters down to 41 sources. Only 17 of those are also confirmed as h? emitters. “The remaining 24 objects are considered to be unconfirmed candidates associated with the Spiderweb protocluster,” the authors write. “These PBE candidates are still at risk of foreground or background emitters other than PBEs; therefore, further follow-up studies are needed to establish that they are protocluster members.” Finding more members of the Spiderweb protocluster and finding that gravity isn’t as important as thought is just a beginning. These are incremental answers on our path to understanding how the Universe evolved into what we see today. Science is a journey, and as is so often the case on the journey, more observations are the next step. “Follow-up confirmations and characterizations of the PBE candidates will provide a better understanding of the total star formation rate in the Spiderweb protocluster, the environmental dependence of galaxy formation, and a transition process from a protocluster to a bona fide cluster of galaxies,” the authors of the second paper write in their conclusion. The researchers intend to follow up this work with more spectroscopic observations form the JWST. Those observations should provide additional confirmation of the Spiderweb’s new members. The post Webb Sees a Supercluster of Galaxies Coming Together appeared first on Universe Today.