About Why Do Americans Think the Economy Is Bad?

SUPPORT us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/twocentspbsds SUBSCRIBE to Two Cents! https://goo.gl/jQ857H According to virtually every metric, the US economy is doing historically well. Yet, many Americans are convinced that it's the pits... Why? Two Cents is hosted by Philip Olson, CFP® and Julia Lorenz-Olson, AFC® Directors: Katie Graham & Andrew Matthews Written by: Andrew Matthews Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Produced by: Katie Graham Edited & Animated by: Dano Johnson Fact checker: Yvonne McGreevy Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Images by: Shutterstock Music by: APM Two Cents is a production of Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios sources: https://www.ft.com/content/9c7931aa-4973-475e-9841-d7ebd54b0f47 https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php?docid=74373 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/why-americans-feel-inflation-economy-are-much-worse-than-they-are/#:~:text=In%20one%2C%2076%20percent%20rated,Michigan%27s%20Ross%20School%20of%20Business. https://globalstrategygroup.app.box.com/s/lqoleiqpsmn1fohm3prsemw1dnmanjjg https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/business/us-economy-biden-approval/index.html https://www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1208676931/the-u-s-economy-is-humming-so-why-are-americans-so-grumpy-about-it https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/15/americans-gloomy-about-economy/70833096007/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/us-economy-polling-biden-presidency/676081/ https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-economy-is-great-why-are-americans-in-such-a-rotten-mood-6e1044d8 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/americans-are-unusually-solid-economy-far-arent-spending-voting-rcna124188 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/american-household-income-improvement-voter-sentiment/675959/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/us-economy-labor-market-inflation-housing/674790/ https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/majority-americans-us-economy-recession-survey#finance https://fee.org/articles/were-americans-really-better-off-during-the-great-depression/#:~:text=The%20actual%20average%20salary%20during,would%20amount%20to%20about%20%2424%2C526.07. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/podcasts/the-daily/the-bad-vibes-around-a-good-economy.html?showTranscript=1 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/sep/07/isabel-brown/are-americans-today-making-less-than-at-the-height/