Un-Diplomatic

Un-Diplomatic

Why Workers Hate Biden’s Economy: An Immiseration Index

Who you gonna trust--experts, or your lyin’ eyes?

Un-Diplomatic
Aug 08, 2023
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A growing number of technocrats, liberals, and supply-side progressives are perplexed. They find a lot of good news about the American economy in “the data.” Real wages among the poorest Americans are up. The stock market is up. Unemployment is down.

Yet everyone who isn’t them is unhappy about the American economy. What gives?

In a CBS poll earlier this …

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