The question ‘how is the U.S. economy doing?’ is an objective and non-partisan one, right? Wrong. A recent study by Pew Research suggests that how we view the economy is deeply connected to our political opinion and is often unrelated to how the economy is actually doing.

As the chart below shows, who holds the presidency has a far greater effect on how we view the economy than GDP…

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Avi Deutsch

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