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Lizzo
went to the Los Angeles Lakers game last night, where she made as much
of a splash as Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello did that one time they made out for an entire basketball game and
let courtside photographers capture it. The singer wore a shirt dress
with the back cut out so everyone could see the black thong she was
wearing with her fishnet stockings. Then she flaunted it when she
twerked for the Jumbotron. That is honestly the kind of brazen
confidence and joie de vivre we should all take into 2020:
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She also had beer, French fries, and friends who matched her in black during the rest of the game. It was a good time:
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Photo credit: Getty Images
Lizzo spoke to ELLE in
its October issue about how she looks at self-love now and how it
helped her change the way she saw herself for the better. “I take
self-love very seriously," she started. "And I take it seriously because
when I was younger, I wanted to change everything about myself,” she
says. “I didn’t love who I was. And the reason I didn’t love who I was
is because I was told I wasn’t lovable by the media, by [people at]
school, by not seeing myself in beauty ads, by not seeing myself in
television...by lack of representation. My self-hatred got so bad that I
was fantasizing about being other people. But you can’t live your life
trying to be somebody else. What’s the point?”
In
every decade since the period immediately before the Civil War, the US
economy could be relied on to do one thing: tumble into recession.
But the American economy is on pace to defy that trend for the first time in nearly 170 years as it enters the 2020s.
The
2010s would be first time a decade has come and gone without the nation
falling into recession, which is commonly defined as two consecutive
quarters of contracting gross domestic product.
Economists
told Business Insider some supporting factors include the extremely
slow recovery and people continuously looking for work.
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In
every decade since the period immediately before the Civil War, the US
economy could be relied on to do one thing: tumble into a recession.
The last one stretched from December 2007 until June 2009, unleashing
18 months of massive job losses and historic rates of home
foreclosures. The severe downturn also triggered a global financial
crisis that some experts say contributed to the rise of authoritarian and populist leaders around the world.
But the American economy is likely to defy that trend
for the first time in nearly 170 years as it enters the 2020s. The
2010s would be first time a decade has come and gone without the nation
falling into recession, which is commonly defined as two consecutive
quarters of contracting gross domestic product.
The close of the
decade will cap an extraordinary period for the US economy — one that
saw it recover from the depths from the Great Recession and lock in a
record interval of sustained growth. President Obama steered an economy
on the verge of collapse and helped put it back on track, which has
continued under President Trump.
Business Insider spoke to three economists to see why the economy didn't spiral into recession in the 2010s.
The US escaped a recession in the 2010s since the economy could only grow
Dr.
Ioana Marinescu, an assistant professor of economics at the University
of Pennsylvania, says a big reason the US escaped a recession was the
last nosedive was so bad that the economy only had room to grow
throughout the decade.
"The 2010s recovery followed the worse
recession since the 1930s," Marinescu told Business Insider. "So there
was room to grow without much adverse effects."
Still, economists
say that effects of the last recession are still felt today in the form
of accelerating wealth inequality and worsened career prospects for
millennials and other young adults.
"We had such a terrible
recession and a really slow recovery," Dr. Tara Sinclair, an associate
professor of economics at George Washington University, told Business
Insider. "The last three recessions, we haven't seen a boom period."
Sinclair noted there was a slow crawl toward the historic levels of unemployment present today, and the real wage gains are lower compared to what previous generations experienced after a recession.
"These
big employment gains suggest there are people still needing jobs,"
Sinclair said, referring to the blockbuster November jobs report that showed the economy beat expectations and added 266,000 new jobs.
Others,
like Dr. Robert Barro, a professor of economics at Harvard University
and a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise
Institute, also noted surges in the number of employed people under both
Obama and Trump.
"There
has been no recession because the growth rate of real GDP has been
remarkably stable, although at a low average rate," Barro told Business
Insider in an email, noting a steady performance averaging out to 2% since 2010.
Still,
Barro said the economy has been "hampered" by "the crazy trade war" and
says it's a big factor dragging it down this year, and increases the
odds of an economic downturn in 2020.
When it comes to fending off
the next recession, Sinclair said that economists should be focused on
equipping the government with the right tools, noting her research showing the profession has a poor record of predicting them.
"There
is not any consistent evidence that economists can predict the onset of
a recesssion. We don't have that sort of insight or crystal ball,"
Sinclair said. "But economists can tell when we are in a recession, and
that's when we can focus on whether we have policies that can act
quickly to reduce the impact of one."
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So, how was President Donald Trump planning to spend his Thanksgiving?
Well, according to Newsweek’s initial account, he was going to be busy “tweeting, golfing and more” — but no mention of the president’s unannounced trip to Afghanistan. As you can see, Trump’s son wasn’t too pleased with the story:
And the omission reportedly cost one reporter her job.
“Newsweek
investigated the failures that led to the publication of the inaccurate
report that President Trump spent Thanksgiving tweeting and golfing
rather than visiting troops in Afghanistan,” the publication told the New York Post.
“The story has been corrected and the journalist responsible has been
terminated. We will continue to review our processes and, if required,
take further action.”
The reporter, Jessica Kwong, explained her side on Twitter:
Trump headed to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops on Thanksgiving https://t.co/f7Xeqz1ZGQ
Deleting this tweet because it was written before knowing about the
president’s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake. Story has
already been updated, as shown in the screenshot. pic.twitter.com/g9CfPaV2kQ
As for Trump’s overseas visit, he
arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time on
Thursday and served turkey to the troops.
“There is nowhere I’d
rather celebrate this Thanksgiving than right here with the toughest,
strongest, best and bravest warriors on the face of the earth,” the
president said, before leaving just after midnight.
Trump also
met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and announced that peace talks
between the U.S. and Taliban, which broke off in September, are back on —
this was reportedly news to the Taliban and the Afghan government.
