Lady Gaga, Low-Rise Jeans, and the Next Recession

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  What do Lady Gaga, flash mobs, and low-rise jeans have in common?

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  They're all things I thought were cool 15 plus years ago.

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  They're also back, not just as trends,

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  but as harbingers of doom, or what young people are calling recession indicators.

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  There's a million recession indicators,

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  but my number one right now is how many A-list celebrities are doing commercials.

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  People brought tickets to Coachella a week before Coachella.

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  Which is crazy.

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  That's a recession indicator.

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  Opening Instagram like, damn, everyone got their master's degree this year.

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  Congratulations, but also recession indicator.

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  I've just searched recession indicator on TikTok.

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  I mean, there's dozens of videos.

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  Our colleague Hannah Aaron Lang writes about financial markets.

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  And she became fascinated with the idea that Gen Z is looking for economic insight in unexpected places.

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  There's a video with the caption, recession indicators you may not have noticed.

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  My top five recession indicators.

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  Oh my gosh.

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  Recession trend predictions, the biggest recession indicator.

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  And these are all just from like, these are not, you know, news anchors or news outlets.

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