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mediamacro

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A narrative or set of beliefs promulgated as factual by news media that distorts macroeconomic consensus, e.g. often presenting the (total) government deficit as a prime economic indicator and invoking analogies between governments and households on debt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: economics, government, media, politics, sciences

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Etymology

Coined in 2014 by Simon Wren-Lewis. Compound of media + macro (“macroeconomics”).