On June 11, 2024, Raw Story published a commentary by John Stoehr arguing that the U.S. economy was the best it had been in 50 years, but that people couldn’t see it:
… a majority … appears to believe we’re in a recession, according to one poll, when the opposite is true. No one has seen a better economy in 50 years. Wages are outpacing inflation. I couldn’t have written that sentence even in the boom-boom nineties.
The opinion piece was shared widely online, including by actress Morgan Fairchild:
This post had been seen more than 513,000 times and liked 10,000 times as of this writing, and it received several replies confirming the hypothesis that people could not see how good the economy was. “My gas and grocery bills beg to differ,” said an X user claiming to be a supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump….
