There seems to have been a general uptick in mainstream media warnings of a recession recently. For example the Economist cover last week: “how bad will the nex

There seems to have been a general uptick in mainstream media warnings of a recession recently. For example the Economist cover last week: “how bad will the next recession be”. I’m not an expert I hasten to add, but before 2008 I also noticed this slow ratcheting up of the focus ahead of the final blow-up. I realise this could be a very biased viewpoint, it’s only a datapoint, but it makes me wonder, if you could track google search terms related to recession over time or appearances in the press, would this be a predictor of actual sentiment and impending recession? I also wonder if there is a generalized impending sense of doom and investors feeling like they need to exit ahead of a crash.