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Exactly, although I think some journalists are complicit because they like being able to write impressive sounding headlines.

Another example is anytime more money is spent/received on/for something that ever before, and the effect of inflation is being ignored.

You can glean more from VC blogs. For example, https://www.saastr.com/carta-startup-shutdowns-are-up-237/

if the number of start-ups shot up before crashing, that's also bad, isn't it? like when a company grows a lot and then lays off a large fraction of its workers, it indicates something has fallen through, doesn't it?