Croneman: Verify us for the economists’ Rita, Guess, Spring « 

Ylva Johansson, program manager for the « Economy Type » (SVT, Friday) was quick to immediately self -righteous the program’s recurring theme, interest rates (Snark), by saying: « The owned accommodation is the most common form of housing in Sweden. »

I have tried to point out several times that the second most common form of housing is the rental right (most recently in a chronicle from August last year), but no one cares in the media, since most themselves live in small houses and condominiums.

The Institute for Media Studies occasionally lands a horrifying report that upsets the entire other elite and which deals with how many journalists it lives at Södermalm in Stockholm, and in urban areas.

The really interesting thing in this context is not where the journalists live, but how. Well, in small houses and condominiums.

Does it affect reporting?

Still waiting for answers to that question, maybe it would also be dressy to see, for example, how and where the employees at the Institute for Media Studies live …?

When, so to speak, we are still underway, as well.

In Friday’s broadcast from The « economy call » was the most common words: « worry », « worried », « troubled times ».

The one we would worry most about this Friday was the influencer and fashion writer Fanny Ekstrand as the editorial board has picked up as the perfect housing victim right now. She and her husband lived in a newly purchased eight million villa of about 200 square meters (« a renovation object ») in Hässelby.

How will it go, how will they manage? Bind the interest rate or not? And with this concern in the interest rate market, and this concern in the world (yes, out there too).

They were sleepless all weekend.

Andreas Wallström, forecast manager at Swedbank, and Claudia Wörmann, housing economist at the mortgage, put the boilers in deep folds.

Is there anything more hopeless than being forced to listen to economists and banking people sitting and guessing?

My intention is not to Desavoura either Wallström or Wörmann, but the people in the banking sphere do not often see themselves, as a group, as brilliant and indispensable social analysts when the only thing they do is guesses.

Okay, in any case, maybe we can call with a little goodwill it « qualified » guesses – but do you ever get a feeling that these economists, bank experts have any political knowledge, any education at all, can they history, culture, literature?

What does their analysis are based on, interest fluctuations since 1929?

Tell me, honestly: When did we not live in troubled times?

In my youth there was a popular children’s and youth program on television called « Rita, guess, run ». Wondering why I came to think about it right now …?

The use of the words I listed above; Concerns, worried, worried times, more or less grind us at the moment. I am not directly surprised at the poor historical perspectives and the miserable historical level of knowledge, but tell me, frankly: when did we not live in troubled times?

It’s not that complicated To turn your eyes back over the past 100 years to see so many human disasters that the present, despite the climate threat and the absurd economic inequality, can still suddenly appear as a world to prefer.

There is some hope and there are people who can and make a difference. They are rarely visible in Swedish media. Their narratives can risk moving to the general prevailing – and it just creates even more worry, people who suddenly go across, right? Fortunately, they are online, insta, on their own youtube channels.

Read, listen and look at Dutch historian Rutger Bregman for example, or Englishman Gary Stevenson. And follow the statistics Max Roser and his « Our World in Data ». Indispensable voices right now.

Read more chronicles and others Texts by Johan Croneman, for example: I put on a television series to release reality that the series depicts