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Recession Watch: Broken Economic Polling Will Make Next Downturn Worse
https://www.businessinsider.com/polls-get-american-economy-wrong-make-next-recession-worse-jobs-2024-3?utm_medium=email

Recession watch: broken economic polling will make next downturn worse
Polls are fueling 'pessimism inflation' — and it's going to make the next recession even more painful than the last one.

With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse
Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing less than the return of all its territory, including land that Russia has controlled since 2014.
But with the battle lines changing little in the last year, militarily retaking the swaths of east and south Ukraine that Russia now occupies
— about 20 percent of the country
— appears increasingly unlikely.

Negotiating with Russian President Vlad…

With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse
Pessimism about Ukraine’s battlefield chances has increased in recent months as Russian forces have regained the initiative on the battlefield, largely because Ukrainians are short on troops and ammunition.

Feeling a weird paradox of…
…the optimism of how everything is better because we’re moving away from the decades-old mess of poor memory management with protections that C/C can’t enforce, and even improving on models like Garbage Collection (with Automatic Reference Counting and Borrow Checking), strong typing, powerful and accessible high-level languages…
…and the pessimism that actually *using* software feels so much worse nearly every day—especially on the web.

The pandemic hardened voter distrust in government, a sentiment Trump and his allies are using to their advantage.
Fears of political violence, even civil war, are at record highs, and rankings of the nation’s happiness at record lows.
And views of the nation’s economy and confidence in the future remain bleak, even as the Biden administration has defied expectations of a recession.
The truth is Joe Biden delivers where Trump failed, from the pandemic to building an econom…

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics
Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch.