In the 1960s, "economic downturn" became the euphemism of choice. Alan Greenspan, while he was an economic adviser to President Ford, contributed "sideways waffle."During the Carter years ...

After sampling an economic cocktail of inflation and slowing growth stirred up first by tariff uncertainty and now by actual tariffs, hints of another unsavory concept are wafting through ...

Shapiro, Sudhof, and Wilson (2020, hereafter SSW), construct sentiment scores for economics-related news articles from 24 major U.S. newspapers compiled by the news aggregator service Factiva. The ...