Whatever You Do, Don’t Say Recession

Adam De Salle
9 min readAug 13, 2022
Credit: BARRY MAGUIRE/NEWSART

On his podcast this month, Joe Rogan, accompanied by his guest Chris Williamson (neither of whom, it goes without saying, are qualified economists or experts of anything other than spewing nonsense — Williamson is a self-professed “podcaster, Youtuber, and club promoter”), claimed that “The Biden Administration Redefined Recession.” A change on the Wikipedia entry for recession sparked Williamson to claim that the US is in a…

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Adam De Salle

I am a young writer interested in providing the intellectual tools to those in the political trenches so that they may fight their battles well-informed.