Who is peddling the fiction?
Go to John William’s Shadow Stats. He does an excellent job of explaining how the feds have repeatedly massaged their statistical methodology for 40 years to get desired results..
In reality, using the feds 80s methodology, we have been in recession for 8 years.
>>Who is peddling the fiction?
Everyone who needs the serfs to keep working harder every year for less money to buy things they don’t really need.
Both political parties are culpable. Personally, I have long thought the precarious economic situation has created a big game of chicken between Obama and Congress. Obama has basically rammed everything he possibly could through and Congress has not used the power of the purse because they were afraid Obama would blame them for a renewed recession or worse.