Bad News Out Here In the Real World

David Sirota's picture

In in the real world outside the presidential campaign bubble, there's some really big, bad news from the BBC:

"The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch. It said that Friday's employment report, which sent shares tumbling worldwide, confirmed that the US is in the first month of a recession."

This is very troubling — as is the fact that it is basically being ignored by the American media. I mean, really: It's pretty sad that our celebrity-obsessed media is so consumed in its efforts to turn the presidential contest into a glorified television show that we have to rely on British news outlets to deliver this huge news about our economy.

(h/t Peak Dems)





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