New York Times Publishes Op-Ed From 25-Year-Old Female “Economics Influencer” Absolving Biden of Blame for Economy

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by Ace

She says we’re not in a recession.
 
Just a “vibe-cession.”
 
And that’s a real quote. That’s a real thing the New York Time published as noteworthy economic commentary.
 
We are Serious Journalists. Please pay us money and give us Prizes now!
 

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Yes, this just sounds right to me.
 
Fox News reports on the New York Times’ foray into the exciting new field of economic orgone energy.

A New York Times guest essay is taking heat for its insistence that “weird vibes in the economy” are setting the stage for a recession as economists and consumers alike say the recession has already arrived.”The vibes in the economy are… weird. That weirdness has real effects,” author Kyla Scanlon wrote Thursday.
 
Scanlon claimed the U.S. economy is less focused on reality and more focused on interpretations of reality, including how consumers react in response to talks of economic decline.
 
“When policy is more focused on indicators that might not fully reflect reality, and not on the silly and messy people whom the policy is meant to serve, we enter dangerous territory,” she wrote.
 
“There is no recession yet. Right now we are in a ‘vibe-cession’ of sorts — a period of declining expectations that people are feeling based on both real-world worries and past experiences.”
 
Scanlon also blamed “noise” about the economy for the negative assumptions American consumers have formed, writing the economy is a testament of what people do and, when too much bad air conquers the circulating narrative, it can lead people to “expect the worst.”
 
Despite indicators pointing to a recession, Scanlon claimed the recession has yet to arrive, and people are simply fearing the worst is yet to come, writing, “What people expect can soon end up happening, and right now, with worsening data, many people’s expectations have come together to expect a recession. And those expectations could very well lead to one.”

Scanlon’s claims are true and novel. Except the true parts are not novel, and the novel parts are not true.
 
The true parts are the obvious, Basic Bitch economics parts. Yes, obviously, there is a consumer sentiment factor in mass economic behavior. That’s why we measure consumer sentiment in the Consumer Sentiment Index.
 
People’s feelings about the economy do substantially impact what the economy does. Or: People’s feelings about the economy substantially make up the economy.
 
If people have the feeling the economy is strong, the economy will tend to be strong. If people have the feeling the economy is weak, the economy will tend to be weak.
 
This is all true… and extremely obvious.
 
Not worth saying, not worth printing, and not worth reading.
 
The novel part of her claim — the part which is not true — is her apparent belief and her implication that because some of the economy is based on feeling and sentiment, all of it is, and if we just had better feelings and sentiment, the economy would be better.

The vibes in the economy are … weird. That weirdness has real effects. A recent study found that broader vibes do indeed drive what people do, with media narratives about the economy accounting for 42 percent of the fall in consumer sentiment in the second half of 2021.Indicators like G.D.P. are important, but much of the time, the root of economic problems lies with expectations. When we think about things like inflation, financial conditions and monetary policy, it’s best to frame them through people. And people are, of course, silly and messy. Far too many economists and experts forget that the economy is really a bunch of people “peopling” around and trying to make sense of this world.

Literally no economist or expert forgets that. I think it’s just that that’s one of the few economic ideas you’re capable of understanding so you’re pointing to it proudly saying, “Hey, I understand this part! Let’s not forget about this!”
 
They’re not forgetting about that.
 
It’s just they also know much more than that.
 
Again: You’re Basic Bitch. You’d have to struggle to be Mid.

When policy is more focused on indicators that might not fully reflect reality, and not on the silly and messy people whom the policy is meant to serve, we enter dangerous territory.

I think this is a Taylor Swift lyric. It’s a diss track about Katie Perry.

There is no recession yet.

Yes there is.

Right now we are in a “vibe-cession” of sorts — a period of declining expectations that people are feeling based on both real-world worries and past experiences.

It’s not just about worries. There are objective facts involved here.

Things are off. And if they don’t improve, we will have to worry about more than bad vibes.

She seems to forget — or, rather, wants the reader to forget — that the public hasn’t just come by its “vibes” about the economy randomly, or irrationally. The public doesn’t just have “bad vibes” about its purchasing power having declined because they just are in a funk. No, they have these “bad vibes” about declining purchasing power because their purchasing power has objectively declined, due to the fact that Biden pumped a trillion of new dollars into the economy and reduced the value of the dollars in people’s pockets.
 
So then people get the “bad vibes” that food and fuel costs more, and that their paychecks are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living. This “bad vibe” just happens to track with objective economic reality.
 
People then have the “bad vibe” that maybe they should scale back unnecessary purchases because they don’t have as much money as they used to. By spending less money, it is true, they are in fact contributing to an economic downturn — but it’s not just their “bad vibes,” arising out of nowhere, that has produced this outcome. Their “bad vibes,” their belief that they don’t have as much money as they once did and their consequent lack of confidence about future economic security, is a very rational feeling based on, again, the objective economic reality that Biden has presented them with.
 
She writes as though if we all just believed that the economy were doing great, we could avoid the “bad vibes” that are causing this recession.
 
But the “bad vibes” aren’t the first movers in this recessionary chain of events. It’s the bad economic conditions which in turn are causing the “bad vibes” which in turn drive people to reduce spending which in turn weakens economic conditions further.
 
Dispelling the “bad vibes” from one’s mind will not suddenly restore the money-to-goods scales to balanced.
 
She really, really, really is smitten with the Day Two of Economics idea that market psychology is part of economics and so is insisting that market psychology is all of economics.
 
It’s not. Market psychology, like basic human psychology, is driven by tangible real-world factors. People don’t just decide “Today I am happy.” Usually there are real-world reasons pushing them down a happy path.
 
Why doesn’t she just say what she really wants to say? This economy is perfect, except that Republican Witches are casting Spells of Binding on the economy. And the Good Witches have to cast Counter-Spells of Protection.
 
Now, I don’t know this particular 25-year-old “economic influencer’s” oeuvre, or why the Times was so taken with the expertise of a girl who had so expertly digested a single chapter in the first part of an economic textbook.
 
I imagine the reasons include things such as: The continuing need to deny that the recession which is obviously happening is happening at all, the need to provide happytalk pablum to stressed-and-depressed progressives giving up watching leftwing news channels and reading leftwing newspapers.

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The New York Slimes(Times)has been covering up for the enemy since 1932 when Walter Duranty covered up for Stalin then Herb Mathews covered up for Castro and are behind this 1619 project

OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooh an opinion piece WGAF what this nobody thinks.

I saw today that the employment numbers are “up.”
What does this mean, in real life?
All around me I meet people who find themselves needing (and getting) a 2nd job.
Others, retirees, are coming out of retirement because their budget is busted by inflation.
All these people getting jobs make it look like there are economic factors looking rosy for our future.
But its an illusion.
All those who refuse to work becaue they want to live in a welfare state are still on the sidelines.
There are still too many sitting in the wagon while too few are pulling that wagon.
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The national number show my initial local view is being mirrored all over:

Charles Payne broke down the “528,000 jobs added in July”
Household Survey
Full Time -71,000
Part Time +384,000
Multiple Jobs +92,000
https://t.co/8pojYW5SrN

We “added” 528,000 jobs, but 136,000 fewer are employed than in May!

Inflatiion Fuel prices are up and so are t he Food Prices and the Eco-Freak idiots want us to give thanks to Joe Biden the Idiot for cutting off the ANWR

A recent study found that broader vibes do indeed drive what people do,

Oh, really? You mean like what a steady flood of propaganda telling us a duly elected President is a Russian asset might have on an election? The actual fact is that there are some people who are not millionaires that suffer the pain of high energy prices and out of control (still being stoked further by Democrats) inflation and they (we) have all been wondering what TOOK you so long to declare a recession.

So, I guess the recession is OUR fault because we think the economy walks like a recession, talks like a recession and stinks like a recession?

And here’s what we have to look forward to: if and when a cognizant adult takes over and, by merely not being a stupid idiot, turns the economy around instantaneously, as Trump did in 2017, the left will say (again), “See what a great economy idiot Biden left for ________ (fill in the blank)? Leftist genius had it all set up for him/her! Progressive economics succeeds again!” It’s enough to make you puke.