Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession

We've known this all the way back to Keynes. That's why he wanted the government to step in and pick up the slack created by individual consumers creating a self fulfilling prophecy of cutting back their own spending by 10% in preparation for a possible bad economy. Not only would the government spending help offset reduced consumer spending but the knowledge, within the broad population, that the government would do this would reduce fear of a recession and thus reduce the recession inducing behavior.

There is a very palpable sense of people wanting the economy to collapse, and I'll bet a lot of it is spite from renters who are having their rents jacked, and being completely priced out of even entry-level homes in many markets. They can't get a fair shake at things, so they want to watch things burn.

Not to say that I entirely blame that mentality, but I'm just very curious what tangible impact that has and how to measure it from a quantitative standpoint. Are there any good sentiment analysis tools for this sort of thing and correlating it with the market/economies?

This sort of ooga-booga is why it's almost impossible to take economists very seriously.

Any sort of study with pretensions to scientific rigor (look at all that fancy math!) that, at the end of the day, falls back on something like animal spirits, deserves quite a bit of mockery.