A lot of the trends identified in this article are ubiquitous across academia, and in fact much worse in humanities -- having 99 TT positions open in a year would make my friends in the English department swoon!

It's just that economics, as a field, is better at making charts and loudly complaining about things.

agree. All job markets are 'bad'. The number of openings is greatly exceeded by people applying. this is true for pretty much everything.