
Episode 288: What's a Recession?
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You Don't Really Want a Job?
The rise of the gig economy is coincident with COVID. Roughly a third of workers say they're involved in the gig economy in some fashion. It's unclear yet how we're going to count people who are working in the gigeconomy. But it will show up in GDP because every time you pay for an Uber, that money counts as a service that has been provided.
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