I'm a huge fan of Kyla, I think she does a really good job of communicating economics in a clear and understandable way. There has been a bunch of topics that I didn't quite understand until Kyla did a video on them.

The interesting part to me is that the current economic pessimism has persisted through Biden and Trump's Administrations. Biden had a pretty healthy recovery from the height of the Covid pandemic with pretty low inflation and low unemployment, but I still knew people that spent multiple years trying to find work after being furloughed. It's hard to say if the economic data was telling the full story, or my anecdotal evidence was an outlier.

It's super hard to trust the economic data now, so I'm not surprised people feel pessimistic, it legitimately feels like only the rich and well connected get access to the proper data.