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The Stripper Index: Decoding the Economic Signals of Sex Work - Business Review at Berkeley
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Did some more googling about this, looks like there's other unconventional and seemingly unintuitive counter signals that might lend credence to these metrics: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sex-workers-already-predicted-theres-110007476.html
It seems that "disposable" income is the overall theme here. That's why Las Vegas is usually a great market to watch for early economic downturn.