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Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan has slammed Democrat President Joe Biden’s economic rhetoric and issued a warning about his administration’s attempts to twist the definition of a recession.
The Biden administration repeatedly downplayed the definition ahead of an economic report that showed the United States experienced two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction.
The traditional definition of “recession” is met after two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction.
“In terms of the technical definition, [two negative quarters of growth] is not a recession,” said Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council.
“The technical definition considers a much broader spectrum of data points.”
Moynihan has fired back at the Biden admin for playing semantic games over America’s economic woes.
Splitting hairs over whether the U.S. is actually in a recession demonstrates how out of touch the Biden administration is with the sentiment of everyday Americans, Moynihan told the Associated Press.
“Recession is a word,” Moynihan said.“Whether we are in a recession or not is really not the important thing.“It’s what it feels like for the people going through this.” Slay the latest News for free! Even with the Biden administration celebrating “zero inflation” in July, Moynihan, who leads the second-largest bank in the U.S., warns that he remains concerned about high gas prices and especially skyrocketing rent prices.“Gas prices are coming back down, but rents are going up 10, 12, 15%. And rent can end up taking 40% of these households’ income,” Moynihan said.“We are worried about, for the U.S. broad-based consumer, is the increased rents as we go into the natural turn of rents.”Indeed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , shelter prices rose 5.7% year-over-year in July, which the agency explained amounted to “about 40% of the total increase in all items less food and energy” — just as Moynihan said.On the question of […]
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