NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Waylon Wong.

And I'm Adrian Ma, and it's time for indicators of the week.

And joining us on this edition of Indicators of the Week

is our colleague from the Business Desk.

Alina Sal Luke, hello.

Hello, hello, hello.

Alina, you are here for an action-packed

indicators of the week. Today we are going to talk about

how Red Lobster got cooked and the vibes and vices of the American economy.

Wow, love it.

Whelan, your indicator has something to do with vibes. It does, and vibes are bad my friends. My indicator is

56 percent. This is the percentage of Americans who believe the US economy is in

a recession according to a new poll by Harris and the

Guardian newspaper. When I saw this I was floored because we did have a mini

recession at the start of the pandemic in 2020. But since then gross domestic

product has been going up and you know by this measure the economy is expanding not

contracting. I mean and we have talked about this before on the show This is sort of a more of a vibe session than a recession.

Like people, despite the sort of the headline numbers

of the economy being strong, people are just like not feeling it.

Exactly.

And you know, this poll suggests it's not just

a casual disconnect between what the numbers say

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