"The one thing that our economy is going to be guaranteed is a wartime economy," Daniel told Business Insider in an interview.
Interest in ultra-bearish takes on the market or the economy is on the up based on raw search data.
Google searches for "stock market crash" have jumped 17% over the last quarter, while searches for "economic crash" have surged 15%, according to search analytics firm Glimpse.
In both communities, users are sounding the alarm on all sorts of apocalyptic scenarios for the economy, with some predicting a stock market crash, housing market crash, or a total collapse of the US financial system.
"Others may not be as lucky and could be constrained by them, and that could color their outlooks for the stock market and the economy."
Persons:
—, Daniel, subreddit, Freddie Smith, Smith, aren't, Jonathan Rose, he's, Rose, there's, that's, Richard Sylla
Organizations:
Service, Genesis Gold, US, Northwestern Mutual, New York University
Locations:
Washington ,, Reddit, Florida