Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Strong American Growth (and Something to Worry About) || Peter Zeihan" video.

Peter is basically an access journalist -- he has to say what the administration and its strategists want him to say, or they'll cut him off from his information feeds.
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They have to pick their metrics carefully, to make the economy look "strong".
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@legionivfelix No, I've read all of Peter's books, and compare that to his low-evidence shilling for The Narrative here. It's like listening to two entirely different men.
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Or global warming / sea level rise, for that matter.
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@DeftPol People who are not even looking for work has hit record highs, inflation is still breathtaking, gas prices are still at incredible highs. Can the average guy with the average job afford the average house? Not a chance. Are today's youth looking at a worse life than their parents? Certainly. Sorry, but Zeihan's version of "good" is coming to you from Laguna Beach, not most places in America.
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@bloodgout Wow, YouTube doesn't allow criticism and corrections of comments like this. This kind of bias is going to destroy the platform.
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Peter is basically an access journalist now -- he has to say what the administration and its strategists want him to say, or they'll cut him off from his information feeds. I wish he'd get back to independent research from un-compromised sources, which is what got him famous in the first place. Too much of this other kind of tripe, and he's going to see his credibility / fame collapse quickly.
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@aldofromsf Just a sense of perspective, and whose interests are being reflected when they say "things are good".
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@bloodgout You're hilarious and not terribly bright, if you believe the official numbers on inflation. Congratulations on understanding the problem with housing prices. Now combine that with Green and Immigration policies (both of which we can lay at Biden's feet), and you'll show you can put 2 and 2 together. Greed is a human constant -- it does nothing to explain recently skyrocketing food and fuel prices, which are again traceable directly to Biden's energy policies and worldwide farm policies. At least you're admitting that prices are up, even if you're incredibly naive about official inflation calculations.
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And Trump is going to increase the size of the government? How? Jump-starting our oil industry alone, would have more of a deflationary effect and productivity-enhancing effect, than anything the Biden administration is willing to try.
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I would have preferred to hear about fracking and the energy industry, which is something Peter has more than "one data point" on.
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