{"id":1594533,"date":"2022-08-08T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594533"},"modified":"2022-08-08T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:34:41","slug":"americans-sour-further-on-bidens-economy-as-pessimism-hits-highest-since-2008-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-sour-further-on-bidens-economy-as-pessimism-hits-highest-since-2008-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Sour Further on Biden\u2019s Economy as Pessimism Hits Highest Since 2008: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-sour-further-on-bidens-economy-as-pessimism-hits-highest-since-2008-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Americans have soured further on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-economy\">economy<\/a> under President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>, according to the latest ABC News \/Ipsos poll, which shows that the share of U.S. respondents who think the economy is getting worse has soared to its highest level since the financial crisis of 2008\u201309.<\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds (69 percent) of American adults believe the U.S. economy is deteriorating, according to the poll (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2022-08\/Topline%20ABC_Ipsos%20Poll%20August%206%202022%20.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), published three months before the midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the highest share of Americans who say the economy is getting worse since 2008, when 82 percent expressed a similarly pessimistic view.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, carried out on a sample of 665 respondents and with a 4.2 percentage point margin of error,\u00a0also shows Americans trust Republicans over Democrats to handle key issues like crime, the economy, and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also provides added contours to the heated debate on whether the United States has\u2014as some economists argue\u2014fallen into a recession or\u2014as members of the Biden administration insist\u2014it has not.<\/p>\n<p> Recession or Something Else? <\/p>\n<p>Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and a number of economists have argued that the U.S. economy isn\u2019t in a recession, despite meeting the informal rule-of-thumb definition for a contraction\u2014namely, two back-to-back quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth.<\/p>\n<p>While the two-quarter rule has for decades served as a shorthand definition of recession, economic contractions in the United States are declared by a committee of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), who use a broader definition than the two-quarter rule-of-thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Yellen told a press conference in late July that \u201cmost economists and most Americans\u201d define a recession as a \u201cbroad-based weakening\u201d of the U.S. economy that includes businesses shuttering in large numbers and mass layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not what we\u2019re seeing right now when you look at the economy. 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