Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast where we talk to our friend and sponsor of the show, Zach Abraham from Bullwork Capital Management.

And there's always chitter chatter in the market from experts that a recession is coming or a recession isn't coming or whatever.

How the economy is doing is always a topic of debate.

And right now, there are grumblings about a potential

recession. And apparently there are signs that don't have anything to do with actual economic

indicators that do indicate recessions that we are just learning about. This is according to an article

at NPR.

So some of the most famous unofficial indicators include, maybe you've heard of this,

the hemline index. Never heard of it. Have you heard of this? I have. You have? Really? Is it a thing?

So apparently shorter skirts equals good economy, longer skirts equals a downturn?

Why?

I don't get that.

I don't understand.

It actually goes another way.

You can look at suit sales.

So in boom times, the sale of men's suits go down in recessions, they start going back up.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, it's a lot of weird.

It's one of the fascinating things about economics and markets.

And it's one of the reasons I fell in love with them.

There's so much human behavior involved.

And people don't really realize that.

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