Whenever anyone says "the economy", you can and should mentally substitute it with "rich people's yacht money".

Rich people's yacht money doing well doesn't do shit for 90% of the population. It doesn't pay the rent, put food on the table or clothes on their back. They can't afford to see a doctor or ride the damn bus.

And you want them to be happy because some stockbroker is getting a second holiday in the Maldives this year?

Stupid arrogant fucks.

the grocery stores and the rest of the capitalist pigs have yet to stop price gouging

If "the economy" doesn't translate to the purchasing power of our labor, then it's a useless metric.

Pollsters and economists say there has never been as wide a gap between the underlying health of the economy and public perception.

There's never been as wide a gap between the rich and the working class, either. Gee, I wonder if that could have something to do with it?!

Wages have not kept up with inflation. Why is this so hard for the media to understand?

Because they’re calling the stock market “the economy” instead of actually looking at the qol of the average American. It’s just more ammo for the government only cares about the rich and corps argument

“Things are getting better and people think things are going to get worse ...

Because they are worse ... because many people don't have a well-paying job as a pollster ... and it's expected that the price of groceries will still rise in 2024 ... and rent will still go up ... and fires/droughts/storms/heatwaves will get worse ... and electricity/water bills will still go up ...

It always surprises me when otherwise intelligent people seem to set aside their critical thinking skills.

Stronger economy for who?

Second, Biden recently started to blame inflation on corporations that hiked prices when they saw an opportunity to improve their profits, bringing more prominence to an argument first used when gasoline prices spiked. The president's argument is suspicious to many economists, yet the intended message to voters is that Biden is fighting for them against those he blames for fueling inflation.

“Let me be clear: Any corporation that is not passing these savings on to the consumers needs to stop their price gouging,” Biden said recently in Pueblo, Colorado. “The American people are tired of being played for suckers.”

Wow. There's no question who's side the reporter is on.

The oligarch-owned media shouts that everything is terrible when the only thing they care about, the interest rates that impacts their cost to borrow capital, is going up because that limits their ability to run their VC Ponzi schemes. The far-left media and far-right media shout that everything is terrible all the time because they both start from wanting a revolution that tears everything down and won't ever let reality get in the way of that being the proper solution; things must always be bad and getting worse to justify their revolution. And that's basically of all of our media.

Abcnews shut the fuck up. You republiQan corporate pulp mill fuckers.

“Voters feel horrible about it” fuck you.

I came in here to try to explain it again and find post after post of people explaining it for me. I am so proud of you guys.

Now, somebody tell the DNC that...

I swear this is like the 5th "Economy is great but people are suffering for some weird reason" article on this community lmao

And every single time without fail everyone in the comments is showing a big middle finger to these awful pieces lol

it's not his 'fault'.

if you want someone, anyone, to blame, it's the republican clowns in congress and the greedy af CEOs.

Remember kids, 'the economy' means 'rich people's portfolios'.

Lake said voters no longer want to just see inflation rates fall — rather, they want an outright decline in prices, something that last happened on a large scale during the Great Depression.

“Honestly, I’m kind of mystified by it,” she said.

My dad told me once: "never trust the words that come out after the 'honestly' or before the 'but'."