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Is the American economy about to implode? You’d sure think so, at least if you watch the establishment media.
Despite the many indicators that the country is doing just fine, it seems the media has suddenly decided that the sky is falling. If you noticed an odd spike in the number of negative news stories about recession fears over the last few weeks, you’re not alone.
Longtime talk radio host Rush Limbaugh noticed the same thing, and he decided to speak up about it during his Aug. 14 program.
“The Drive-Bys, they’re incorrigible. Now they are literally trying to once again talk the people of this country into a recession,” Limbaugh noted, using his favorite term for the easily distracted media.
“I wouldn’t blame you if you thought the economy was about to tank. You turn to The Drudge Report right now: ‘Yields flash recession warning, stocks dive, banks hammered,'” Limbaugh continued.
Sure enough, a quick check of Google News results over just the past week shows story after story predicting monetary gloom.
One from Yahoo Finance summarizes the hysteria well: “A US recession is probably coming so investors should just deal with it,” Yahoo’s headline declared, as if it was something terrible but unavoidable, like an oncoming hurricane or another season of ABC’s “The Bachelor.”
And another glance at Google data shows that just as Limbaugh mentioned, concern over a recession has skyrocketed, seemingly from out of nowhere. Take a look at this chart from Google Trends, which shows the relative frequency of searches for “recession.”
As you can see, people usually search for “recession” about as often as they search for “2020 election.” It’s clearly something that’s on people’s minds, but they have about as much interest as they do in the election, which is still over a year away.
That is, until about Aug. 4. Since that first week in August, Google Trends reveals a staggering spike in the number of people searching for “recession,” with a dramatic fivefold increase in interest.
That’s right around the time that media outlets started their gloomy economic chatter — and according to Limbaugh, it’s a media scheme.
“The Democrats always, when there’s a Republican in the White House, we’re always on the verge of recession,” he said. “There is no recession,” he insisted. “But I’m telling you this: The financial people in this country are all leftist. You haven’t seen anything yet in their efforts to destroy Trump.”
“This isn’t the result of what’s happening in the markets. This is what these people want you to think is happening,” Limbaugh said. “They are attempting to move public opinion so they can then go out and do a poll that will show whatever percentage of Americans are worried to death about a recession,” the radio host added.
On the one side, you have earnest-sounding news anchors breathlessly claiming that the economy is shaky. On the other side, you have people like Limbaugh saying that’s a lot of baloney. So whom should you believe?
Check the unemployment numbers for yourself. (They’re near record lows for a variety of demographics, including African-Americans and Hispanics.) Take a look at jobs reports, which show that there’s plenty of work out there. Take a glance at the stock market, which has grown impressively — especially when you zoom out and see it in context.
And besides those indicators, you should see what your own two eyes do. If you turned off the news for a day and just looked around your own neighborhood, do you feel things are looking up or looking down?
If they’re looking up, then you might want to do what Limbaugh recommends: Keep moving forward, and don’t fall for the doomsayers.
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[–] philmchawk ago
Disagree, it's really that we never left the recession. We have been in a recession for 12+ years. Wages, housing, food, are all high; infrastructure, morality, cohesion is all low.
[–] Webetrumpin2020 ago
One question I've had is why did Trump then tell everybody in the nation along with Hilldabeast in the presidential debates of 2015ish, that our economy is in a "big fat bubble", maybe it was meant to the extent of the people; and their level of debt being taken, student debt, mortgages, credit cards, auto loans ect. I would definitely agree with them terms, people living way beyond their means! News flash, wages are far from raising near as fast as inflation has over the last 50 years, people are lucky to even get a 3% cost of living raise each year just to soften the blow a little, far from all the items that go up in cost each year that we dont always count, fuel, food, housing, auto's, insurances, along with your local, state and federal taxes, all while trying to save for the great day of trying to retire without being of the age and you can no longer physically withstand, or afford. But yeah, wait the tax payers will always front the bill when it all goes up in smoke, just saying, we have seen it before, time and time again! Just wait for it!! Wish I could just raise my prices, and just bill a self return tax credit to myself each year, I'm sure the government, insurance company's, wall street, banks, businesses ect. would all fully understand me charging all them for the increased value to all of them each year for my services to all of them. Frankly this economy was designed by the world banks, for the world banks, and all of us get to pay the tab! Times need to change, afterall if it wasn't for us all consuming items, they wouldnt be in the business of fraud anymore.
[–] 1Paydaddy ago
Ground is being broken with excavators and dozers in most communities, dump trucks are everywhere moving materials. Help wanted signs are in front of most businesses. The American Dream is alive and well. MAGA!
[–] Q20191776 ago
I question everything Google.
[–] Justice-Formidious ago
Why would ANYONE believe what the DeepState/GlobalistCabal controlled MSM says.
Does the MSM ever tell us the TRUTH?
The MSM agenda is the same as the NWO/Agenda21 and 30.