Obsession Over Recession Depression.

Show Notes

Clips

Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link

• 00:00:01 | Fox News: Levin: Biden has brought in an American recession
• 00:00:10 | MSNBC: I'm Not Predicting An Immediate Recession But Road Ahead Doesn't Look Great: Steve Rattner
• 00:00:18 | CNBC: The consumer has not rolled over yet, zero chance for a recession, says Kevin O'Leary
• 00:00:24 | Bloomberg: El-Erian Says US Stagflation Is 'Unavoidable'
• 00:00:26 | CNBC: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warns there's a 'reasonable chance' of a recession
• 00:00:34 | Fox News: Maria Bartiromo: 'We may very well be in a recession right now'
• 00:00:42 | The Office: It’s Happening
• 00:04:00 | My Little Pony: Woah, that is deep!
• 00:04:28 | A Fish Called Wanda: Upside-Down Apology 
• 00:10:10 | Richard Nixon Foundation: President Nixon's 1970 State of the Union
• 00:11:11 | Miller Center: President Gerald Ford: "Whip Inflation Now" Speech
• 00:12:47 | Jimmy Carter: Crisis of Confidence Speech
• 00:13:52 | Reagan Foundation: President Reagan's Address to the Nation on the Economy
• 00:15:40 | ABC News: Bush Reflects on the American Dream
• 00:17:08 | PBS NewsHour: President George W. Bush's address to the nation after September 11, 2001 attacks
• 00:18:27 | CBS: Bush On Economic Crisis
• 00:20:33 | Evening Standard: Donald Trump: US economy will "skyrocket" after coronavirus crisis
• 00:22:33 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Coffee Break
• 00:25:15 | Scooby Doo: Glasses
• 00:29:53 | The Simpsons: Boring
• 00:30:01 | NBC News: Federal Reserve Faces A Tough Challenge On Cooling Inflation
• 00:34:35 | Semisonic: Closing Time
• 00:56:09 | The Big Short: Closing Speech

Resources

• National Bureau of Economic Research: Business Cycle Dating

• The Balance: How Does the Fed Funds Rate Work, and What Is Its Impact?

• CBS: Mortgage rates jump above 4% — prompting borrowers to return to a staple of the housing bubble

• Macrotrends: Federal Funds Rate - 62 Year Historical Chart

• The Conference Board: US Leading Indicators

• St. Louis Fed: Personal Saving Rate 

• Federal Reserve: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989

Pod Love

• The Economist Asks: How will the war in Ukraine change the world economy?

• The David McWilliams Podcast: Living with inflation, the story of Turkey

UNFTR Episode Resources

• Capitalism.

• Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part I).

• Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part II).

• F*ck Milton Friedman.

• Modern Monetary Theory.

• Peak Oil.

• Immigration Nation.

• Student Debt.