There’s plenty of left wing echo chambers, but they’re leftist, not liberal. r/wayofthebern, for instance, or one of the various communist subreddits are good examples.
The difference here is that leftists extreme enough to fall into those echo chambers are far less common than conservatives. And, of course, they represent a very small subset of the left when compared to conservatives who accept misinformation.
The point of the interest rate hikes was to take money out of circulation to reduce inflation. A side effect of that is cooling wage increases.
Ideally, we would handle inflation by raising taxes. But good luck passing that without a Senate that has a supermajority of non-Republicans