Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden

[enslaved1]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden

Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer.

The poll highlighted many misconceptions people have about the economy, including:

    55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing.

    49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year.

    49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.

Many Americans put the blame on Biden for the state of the economy, with 58% of those polled saying the economy is worsening due to mismanagement from the presidential administration.

The poll underscored people’s complicated emotions around inflation. The vast majority of respondents, 72%, indicated they think inflation is increasing. In reality, the rate of inflation has fallen sharply from its post-Covid peak of 9.1% and has been fluctuating between 3% and 4% a year.

blah blah blah number can be spun to say whatever the speaker wants them to blah blah blah A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job. blah blah blah you plebs don't understand complex issues, let us tell you what reality is blah blah blah who you gonna believe, the experts or your lying eyes? 

[DefiantSix]

Tell it to the hand, propagandists.

[Old n Grumpy]

I have no idea what to call it, but all I know is that everything is more expensive and as soon as Biden came in office, he ****ed up the whole country.