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Food insecurity and food bank use is at record highs among US residents this year. That's a considerably better indicator of real economic health than any index.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/nov/25/us-hunger-surge...

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It appears the economy has ascended to the paperclip-maximiser stage where it doesn't actually need people not to be starving.

Only if you conflate "The Dow" or "The S&P 500" as the "economy." People who only watch the number go up think things are going well, while people who look at how real people fare in this crisis think things are going poorly.

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