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Portfolios, not bank balances, but otherwise that’s what economy means to capitalists. The economic hardship index is what we all actually care about, but that’s never on the news.
Economist here. There’s obviously no single measure of the state of the economy, and if there were, jobs and wages would clearly be a key component. It’s mostly those “left-wing” journalist that will have you believe that one number, GDP growth, represents the state of the economy.
What "left wing journalists?" I want names. There aren't any left wing journalists in MSM.
I think that's why there are quotation marks?
Oof that resonates badly with the community here. I thought that by putting left-wing in quotes, it would be obvious that I was sarcastic, but either people did not read it that way, or something else about my post rubbed people the wrong way.
I actually completely missed them in your post yet noticed them immediately in the reply, maybe some unconcious kneejerk on the the part of people who feel disenfranchised or some freak combination of sentence structure and positioning that causes people to skip over them?
Please provide an example.