How’s the economy actually doing?
In 2022, economists forecasted that we’d be in a recession by now. Did it ever actually happen, though? Prices got higher, interest rates ticked up, but mass layoffs never really happened and gross domestic product growth chugged on. People mostly weathered the turbulence.
Joining us today to talk about all that and to speculate on what effects former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposals might have on the economy is Kyla Scanlon. She worked as a macroeconomic analyst at Capital Group before founding Bread, a financial education company. She has built a large social media following by teaching finance and economics via YouTube, Instagram, Substack, and TikTok. She recently published her first book In This Economy: How Money and Markets Really Work.
As we came out of the pandemic, we experienced inflation beyond what most millennials have seen in their…
