“What I said was that the writer of this article has no argument whatsoever against that statistic.”
Indeed. Schiff has been predicting a total economic collapse “next week” for so long he’s now reduced to saying the stats are faked, and we are in a depression but just dont’ know it. Next he’ll be claiming that there are secret hidden soup lines all over the country and the unemployment rate is really 25%.
Agreed. I'll believe we're in financial straights when I start observing a noticeable decrease in the size of American stomachs. The only thing I've observed, anecdotally to be sure, is an increase over the last ten years. And they were pretty large ten years ago. At any time any pessimist can dredge up some negative stats to "prove" that things are really bad. I maintain that a country that has money to buy junk food in large quantities is not a country that is in a depression.