Biden tries to turn the tables on Trump’s use of a classic political attack line, asks 'are you better off today' - eviltoast
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    7 months ago

    Now you’re just not saying anything. Thanks for demonstrating that you won’t learn.

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        7 months ago

        You come in with this empty childish comment, acting like you’re above it. Hilarious.

        I’m proud to be the only kid on this playground who can actually make a point.

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            7 months ago

            The fact that you have to blatantly misrepresent what I said to make your insults just exposes that even you realize how far out of your league you are right now.

            It never ceases to amaze me how often people project their own shortcomings onto others.

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                7 months ago

                I was wondering when the inevitable “I am just trolling!” backtracking was coming. Impressively much more quickly than I expected. You really do realize how outmatched you are.

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                    7 months ago

                    Lol now just not saying anything. It’s only you and me here, there’s no reason for you to pretend that you made some high level thing that I missed. We both know it’s BS.

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      7 months ago

      No, I’m legitimately asking if you’re joking or not.

      Economists have long defined a recession as “a period in which real GDP declines for at least two consecutive quarters,” to quote the popular economics textbook by Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus. This definition isn’t perfect, but it describes almost every downturn since World War II. With expectations of low or even negative growth for the first two quarters of 2022, President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers has been trying to blunt the news by disavowing this textbook definition. It is “neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” reads a post on the White House website. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen endorsed the claim on NBC over the weekend. In place of the standard economic definition of a recession, administration officials point to the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research as the “official recession scorekeeper.” It’s a highly convenient move for them. While the nonpartisan NBER employs a robust set of indicators to pinpoint recessions, it does so retrospectively.

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        7 months ago

        You’re citing an opinion piece, that vaguely references what yellen says. I just gave you a paper from the IMF, from over a decade before the definition “changed,” that says the definition you use is not the definition.

        You also have to realize that if they had claimed it was a recession, it would have bucked the trends of almost every (if not actually every) recession before it as well. Like employment was going up during the supposed recession. So the argue this person cuts both ways.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah I guess you’re right, the economy is doing better than ever. I have to choose between food and gas but thank fuck the dems are telling us we’re not in a recession.

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            7 months ago

            Yes, clearly by pointing out that the definition didn’t change, im saying the economy is better than ever. You’re truly a genius. Lol

            Anything to avoid learning, as I predicted. Not that it was hard to predict.