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Are People Reading and Writing About the R Word More Frequently Because It's More Likely to Happen?

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The more frequently the word recession appears in print, the more likely it is that a recession actually happened. The fact that people are saying the r word more frequently can kind of become this self-fulfilling prophecy. But for me, personally, i don'ti fully believe that the r word index is as strong of an indicator as it could be simply because of his self fulfilling prophetic nature of the rword.

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