It’s like Elon Musk is stumbling around a darkened Twitter headquarters, feeling around in a room full of buttons, accidentally pressing them at random, then muttering “Oops, sorry” when something blows up.
All politicians possess private and public truths – information they know is true, and information they pass on to the public. This segregated information is not always one and the same. If the citizens are ignorant, public truths can be used to manipulate them. And the public is ignorant in spades.
With inflation at a 40-year high and an economy that is growing at a sluggish pace, concerns about a recession are real. But it may be avoided if consumer spending continues to persist and if more workers enter the labor force, according to a forecast released today by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.