09/13/2026
We should measure the economy by how the bottom 50% are doing at the grocery store, not by how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Record markets and corporate profits mean very little if half the country is stressed about the price of eggs, rent, and gas.
The numbers that get celebrated on cable news often have almost no connection to the daily reality of people living paycheck to paycheck.
If the grocery bill is crushing people, the economy is not “strong” for them—no matter what the indexes say.
