Rick Moran writes at PJMedia.com about the likelihood of more disappointing economic news this week.

Politico calls the coming avalanche of bad economic news a “Category 5 storm.” Indeed, the Biden administration may want to dig a hole and hide while Biden goes to his summer home in Delaware, given the depressing numbers that will come out of Washington this coming week.

“Consumer confidence numbers (which currently stink) hit on Tuesday. A Federal Reserve meeting and decision on interest rates, coupled with a press conference from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, follows up on Wednesday.”

“The first reading on second quarter economic growth drops on Thursday. And the latest numbers on our vexing run of historically high consumer price inflation close out the monster run of data on Friday. In a note to clients today, analysts at Deutsche Bank suggested the flood of information will ‘leave you breathless.’”

Yikes.

For the White House, hope springs eternal. The administration has been touting the dropping price of a gallon of gas this month as if they’re reading the entrails of a newt and discovering that “prosperity is just around the corner,” as Herbert Hoover claimed right before the bottom dropped out of the economy. …

… More important for the political future are the numbers coming out on Thursday. If the GDP is in negative growth territory, no amount of spin by the administration or Democrats will avoid the conclusion that the nation is officially in a recession. …

… Unemployment remains historically low — for the time being — and job openings remain plentiful. But how long can Biden blame “supply chain problems” and “Putin’s price increases” on anyone but himself? He’s had 18 months to address these problems and has failed to do so.

Biden will never take responsibility for the inflation, so we shouldn’t expect him to take responsibility for the recession.