When Was the Last Time you Came Across a Positive Economic News?

[Hewlet]

I find myself pretty bothered by everything going on in the world. Have you ever noticed how it's so hard to come across positive news about the economy, whether it's in our own country or globally? It's genuinely disheartening. Every time we read, watch, or discuss something related to the economy, it's all about inflation, recession, debt, bankruptcy, companies downsizing, laying off hundreds of workers, shareholders firing CEOs, and the company's stock taking a nosedive. Can't we just catch a break and have some good economic news for once?

you are even restricting your question to economic news, when was the last time you saw or read any positive news from any public sector? It's sad how things are gradually going from bad to worse as the day goes by and it's almost as though we don't have any solution to our problems. The price of things is increasing at a very alarming rate yet, most of the salary earners have not witnessed an increase in salary for a long time I can remember. Are we to talk about the global security condition that has become so bad that the only news you now see on CNN and Aljazeera is always war! War! War!.

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[ChiBitCTy]

Well there's certainly a reason why we don't come across positive economic news all that often, and that's because sadly drama sells!  News outlets know that the more dramatic they make headlines, that more people will be enticed to read it.

 I've certainly seen positive economic news of late..lower inflation, better job reports etc.  But, again, still plenty of negative economic data out there but justifiable and not.

[harapan]

Well there's certainly a reason why we don't come across positive economic news all that often, and that's because sadly drama sells!  News outlets know that the more dramatic they make headlines, that more people will be enticed to read it.

This is true. They get more traffic from the chaos. A country that's in peace is not news, but a country that's at war is on everybody's lips.
And that is why the headlines are more dramatic than the actual story.
That is not to say that the economy is not filled with negative facts but the new media mainly reports the negative.

Also positive economic news will be credited to the government and the opposition party are usually so upset with the government they would not want to associate them with anything positive in the economy while the rulling party will want to take credit for every positive thing and point fingers at others for the negative news.

[Alpha Marine]

Well there's certainly a reason why we don't come across positive economic news all that often, and that's because sadly drama sells!  News outlets know that the more dramatic they make headlines, that more people will be enticed to read it.

This is something that we know to be fact, but in my country I don't think there's any positive economic news to report. Even if there was any positive news to report it would be so insignificant compared to the negative news, but take the little wins, right?

The government controls most, if not all the big news media companies, so every positive economic update done by the government would be reported immediately and even exaggerated. This will only deceive the people to believe the government is working when in reality, they're doing nothing.

We woke up one morning  to hear that unemployment rate has dropped to 4%. from over 20%. And this was reported on every news channel and every news paper. It was all over social media. It was a case of telling a lie till it becomes the truth. But in reality, unemployment rate is way over 20%.

[franky1]

for every peace of bad news.. someone is sitting on the opposite side of it very happy.. (apart from injury or death)

inflation.. is told as bad news for customers wanting to buy
but great news for businesses wanting to sell

people need to see opportunity in the bad news

for instance.
imagine there is bad politics.. see the opportunity of change. lobbyists love bad politics. because people come running to them with money to try to create change
as for 'on the street change' be like the protest organisers that love leading protests. start creating merch/banners and such items, sell it at the protests. yep protest leaders love bad politics. it keeps them in business
more bad politics=more protests=more money for protest organisers and lobby groups.. they love bad political news

even things like "eating meat is bad for you" vegetable farmers LOVE that news

houses destroyed (though sad) developers and real estate LOVE that news.. blackrock for instance are investing heavy and going to profit big from the ukraine bad news.. UK/US defense companies LOVE wars. its their business