Topic: When Was the Last Time you Came Across a Positive Economic News? (Read 542 times)

for every peace of bad news.. someone is sitting on the opposite side of it very happy.. (apart from injury or death)

inflation.. is told as bad news for customers wanting to buy
but great news for businesses wanting to sell

people need to see opportunity in the bad news

for instance.
imagine there is bad politics.. see the opportunity of change. lobbyists love bad politics. because people come running to them with money to try to create change
as for 'on the street change' be like the protest organisers that love leading protests. start creating merch/banners and such items, sell it at the protests. yep protest leaders love bad politics. it keeps them in business
more bad politics=more protests=more money for protest organisers and lobby groups.. they love bad political news

even things like "eating meat is bad for you" vegetable farmers LOVE that news

houses destroyed (though sad) developers and real estate LOVE that news.. blackrock for instance are investing heavy and going to profit big from the ukraine bad news.. UK/US defense companies LOVE wars. its their business

This is something that we know to be fact, but in my country I don't think there's any positive economic news to report. Even if there was any positive news to report it would be so insignificant compared to the negative news, but take the little wins, right?

The government controls most, if not all the big news media companies, so every positive economic update done by the government would be reported immediately and even exaggerated. This will only deceive the people to believe the government is working when in reality, they're doing nothing.

We woke up one morning  to hear that unemployment rate has dropped to 4%. from over 20%. And this was reported on every news channel and every news paper. It was all over social media. It was a case of telling a lie till it becomes the truth. But in reality, unemployment rate is way over 20%.

This is true. They get more traffic from the chaos. A country that's in peace is not news, but a country that's at war is on everybody's lips.
And that is why the headlines are more dramatic than the actual story.
That is not to say that the economy is not filled with negative facts but the new media mainly reports the negative.

Also positive economic news will be credited to the government and the opposition party are usually so upset with the government they would not want to associate them with anything positive in the economy while the rulling party will want to take credit for every positive thing and point fingers at others for the negative news.

Well there's certainly a reason why we don't come across positive economic news all that often, and that's because sadly drama sells!  News outlets know that the more dramatic they make headlines, that more people will be enticed to read it.

 I've certainly seen positive economic news of late..lower inflation, better job reports etc.  But, again, still plenty of negative economic data out there but justifiable and not.

you are even restricting your question to economic news, when was the last time you saw or read any positive news from any public sector? It's sad how things are gradually going from bad to worse as the day goes by and it's almost as though we don't have any solution to our problems. The price of things is increasing at a very alarming rate yet, most of the salary earners have not witnessed an increase in salary for a long time I can remember. Are we to talk about the global security condition that has become so bad that the only news you now see on CNN and Aljazeera is always war! War! War!.

There is a good deal of positive news about the economy... in specialized economic news outlets, the general public perception about the economy is "always is bad for me" and this public likes to see their bias confirmed in the news, Carlyle's definition as "the dismal science" is the right one in the common people's mind

It's certainly not the most positive time for news right now, but it's still there !
The world economy is stabilizing, at least the one that positively affects the overall picture in the world - the US, EU, other developed countries.
Gas economic terrorism did not work - EU finally came to diversification of supplies and abandoning "strange" dependencies ... The attempt of economic terror against the whole world, through an attempt to blow up the oil market - also failed.
The crypto market is growing, and there are assumptions on further acceptance of cryptocurrencies as a full-fledged player in the real market.

In a word, don't read only bad news, you should look for good news and you will see it !

This is so true, LOL, this is what happened with my government, they only post good news tho it's not a blatant lie, but they are using a confusing narrative to deceive people. Most of younger generation in here already know how to compare the news with the news from press, but some people still blatantly believe the government, without any check and compare.

You have a point, however the average citizen is becoming more skeptical of whatever claims governments make and this is not really that surprising, after all when you see that everything around you is becoming more expensive and your salary remains the same then who is going to believe their government when they say that everything is OK? No one, so people are more inclined to believe what the media says about the government than the government itself, and this is deservedly so.

Mostly when the people got into the depression and also they fight for their leaders and even they don't know their leaders more than the news and their social media handles explains to them is completely changed. Most of them in which young generation has a great percentage they didn't even have information about their leaders and what they see on these social media's they tend to explain and they also wants others to take care of their talk and they also wants them to be like their leaders which may be politics or any other kind of.

So, these things should be watches but not all the time, it should be given some specific time because watching it all the times created and puts an impact on a person mental health also which is always dangerous to the health of each individual.

Go to official news channel of the government to find great news about the economy since they are the only one that post positive news about the economy while the rest of the news outlet always find a way to nitpick a news against the government. 

But in global news. It’s really hard to find one now that everyone is now suffering with inflation.

You gave good advice. While many people are dealing with difficulties in their lives, there is no need to watch the negativity in the news and become even more negative. The news shows one negative situation after another in many parts of the world. Watching these over and over again is not a good thing.

I'm not saying you shouldn't watch the news completely, but still, taking time for yourself is more important than many things. A person's mental health is important for both himself and his environment.

In fact, you are right, there is less and less positive news in the world, and you want to go back to childhood, when you are not interested in news))) maybe with age you become more interested in economic news and this is our problem, we probably need not to get hung up and move on with our lives.  After all, we can’t influence this in any way.

What I've generally found is that some people can get sucked into a perpetual news cycle, which is often slightly more weighted to bad news than it is to good news. This can lead to a distorted and ever growing unbalanced intake of information, that can put you in a sort of pessimistic mood and you can project that mentality on to all things in your life. However there is plenty of good things happening each and every day, which maybe don't get the same level of coverage. Current events can often also be shocking, imagine an earthquake somewhere - that's huge news if a big city is devastated and that can lead to a lot of upheaval to those affected, but smaller news stories will get drowned out of coverage during such a time period. One suggestion: Read less news, as it is a business after all and most of these organizations are hunting a profit.

I know what you mean, but unfortunately we can't run away from the politics, the technological influences happening around the world, the social influences which seem to affect other countries not only where one is from... Things such as the Ukraine Russia war has affected many countries as the way we do trade has been negatively affected, Oil/gas prices have gone up affecting food prices and everything else...

Tbh the hunger for power by many of our leaders does affect our economies as trade agreements are being broken or made and this will take some years to repair and get back to normal otherwise if you are a religious person you need to pray for a miracle for things to get better.

You answered your question. People love tragedies; they are happy to film an accident. Instead of quickly helping someone who is in trouble, for what? For the sake of likes, I have no intention of watching something like this, especially not to increase the ratings of videos. You don't have to believe everything that populates your content on the Internet. Maybe this looks like a fence from everything negative, but yes, I’d rather be out of the drama than think about the bad things that pour in on us from TV and social networks. There are many things and news that bring sincere pleasure: children, music, charity—you know what you look at with pleasure.

Anyone who takes a good analysis of what's happening in the world today will understand that the world is not moving in the right direction. Many things are wrong with the economy of the world and the worse part of it is that there's no sign of betterment anywhere.

The population of bad people has outnumbered that of the good people, such that the fee good ones are turning bad every day. We have little or nothing to do about this because even posterity is infected by the disease of the present.

Politically, things have fallen apart and then region which was supposed to play the role of morality is totally contaminated. This is worse in some certain African countries. The world is terrible. No one is safe and even the rich and the elite group.

The service sector has been in retraction but essential industry like agriculture and commodities has been surprisingly durable.  These are sectors which are more important really, retail suffering is an impact on jobs but can also easily rebound as well.   Longer term investment required for mining farming and many export industries are a primary sector still important to a balanced economy in most countries, this is most important to protect and maintain momentum in.
    I would call that positive though it might be a less bright point to make, sales of heavy good vehicles, earth moving equipment is still good and in demand also one of the few companies maintaining vs inflation are these companies hence diversity is a strength in an economy.

With this current state of the world and people sitting in top government positions, I guess it is too hard to have at least good economic news, last that I read good news is the post-covid condition which has now a cure at least and people can now back to their normal lives and that's all after this condition and restriction the world backs to the current world before the pandemic happens. If there's any news will comes up sure its just a temporary like the price of gas just a small dump of rollback but after few days or weeks you'll see a price hike again. But well its good too if the news cooperative giving all of the news even its negative to make feed people about the current situation and not just manipulate people.

There are of course, good news. It's just that negative news linger longer in the memory than good news and that's why it seems like we are more flooded with bad news than the good ones. Again, bad news is promoted more by bloggers and content creators because they drive more traffic to their sites than good news.

How does one do that, knowing that news just hit us in our living rooms or space without soliciting our permission? We aren't talking of social media here where we select what sites to visit or not, are we? I mean, one can be watching Bloomberg and be enjoying its content and bang, out from nowhere it flashes breaking news on some FUD on Bitcoin dumping or some whales getting hacked wallet wise or to death or something else like that. You get my drift?

... especially, if those people are from countries where the political landscape has been messed up with brazen and shameless corruption like ours. Honestly, I can't remember when I watched TV too. It's tiring to watch or listen to news and get to constantly hear of several funds always being awarded to various projects and you instinctively realize or dismissively conclude that it's just a way of government settling its loyalists and not that the funds will be for any form of true infrastructural development. It's often "money for the boys."