GlobalData reveals trending topics among economics influencers on Twitter in Q4 2021
January 12, 2022 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Inflation, Omicron, Supply Chain, Turkish Lira and Energy Prices were some of the most discussed trends among the top economics influencers on Twitter during Q4 2021, reveals the Social Media Analytics (SMA) Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Smitarani Tripathy, Social Media Analyst at GlobalData, comments: "Influencers opine that the global economic recovery has been shadowed by the emergence of the new COVID-19 variant 'Omicron', which has the potential to push inflation higher and disturb the supply chain."
Omicron
Top economists on GlobalData's SMA are of the opinion that Omicron is creating substantial havoc by lowering business confidence and collapsing global economic growth, including the US economy as the risks are tilted to the downside.
"The deteriorating health outlook with #Omicron is leading to renewed #Covid fatigue & fear.This risks pushing the US economy toward a contraction in Q1 2022. Our tracker still points to GDP growth around 2% annualized but risks are tilted to the downside."
"I propose the term "breakaway recession" for what's happening in many nations.-The bottom half of society is in recession, while total GDP grows. Brazil, Philippines, India, Peru are heading to breakaway recession. US also has risk; depends on its handling of the Omicron wave."
Inflation
Eurozone inflation hit record high on the back of higher energy and food prices. Some of the economists have also opined that inflation will not head lower despite raising interest rates and taper by the US government while some influencers expect Omicron and expiring fiscal relief will render the inflation dynamics even messier.
"They don't work because the root of increasing inflation is supply disruptions and money supply. Fix the root cause, improve production and reduce money supply. Cash transfers and zero interest rates were bound to lead to inflation especially when chasing few goods."
Energy Prices
Top economists on GlobalData's SMA discussed how the rising prices of oil, gas, and electricity have accelerated the inflation rate to a higher level in many countries. Some economists believe that the surging energy prices may not ease in the near-term.
Turkish Lira
Turkish Lira depreciated the most against the US dollar and the inflation rate reached the highest level since 2002. Influencers discussed that the weak Lira can easily trigger to go well beyond damaging inflation and the economic growth of Turkey.
"Yet more of the same this morning in #Turkey as the #currency weakens even more. The risks posed by this for the Turkish #economy should not be ignored. It can easily trigger a broad range of durable self-feeding vicious cycles that go well beyond damaging #inflation and #growth."
Global Supply Chain
Besides COVID-19 restrictions, harsh climate and geo-political issues played a catalyst role for the global supply chain crisis in 2021. Influencers expect the supply chain crisis likely to speed up deglobalization.
Unemployment, Recession, Climate Change, Vaccination Policy, and Monetary Policy were the other most mentioned trends in Q4 2021.
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Notes to Editors
- Quotes are provided by Smitarani Tripathy, Social Media Analyst at GlobalData
- The information is based on GlobalData Social Media Analytics Platform, which tracks most relevant activity of the industry influencers on Twitter and Reddit
- This press release was written using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research, and in-house analysis conducted by GlobalData's team of industry experts
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