Are you having trouble paying your utility bills, affording groceries, or paying your rent or mortgage over the past few years? If you are, Colin Cowherd wants you to “stop shouting at the sky.” The economy is just fine. Your complaining about it is the real problem.
This weekend, the outspoken host of The Herd on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports One took to X to assure everyone that all is well and to quit your moaning.
That was nice of him.
Now, we’re not here to say that sports personalities are not allowed to have or express opinions about non-sports-related topics. All we ask is that they try to educate themselves just a tiny bit before they open their overpaid yaps.
So, let’s give Cowherd a little education here. First of all, inflation is not “down.” The rate of inflation has gone down in recent months, but inflation is still very high. Especially when you consider those nutty purchases people often make like … food. Food costs are 25 percent higher in 2024 than in 2020, while overall inflation is up 19 percent.
And the only reason “job growth” is accelerating is because many people are taking on second and third jobs to make ends meet. The unemployment number is low because so many have dropped out of the workforce entirely. As for the Dow Jones? Well, ask everyone how their 401Ks are doing, Mr. Cowherd. They’ll give you an earful.
Social Media Gives Cowherd A Heaping Dose of Shut The Hell Up
Needless to say, Cowherd’s condescending and tone-deaf “let them eat cake” view of the economy did not go over so well on X.
The numbers don’t lie.
Cowherd’s Net Worth is $25 Million
Those tweets (or posts as X calls them now) are just a small sampling of the nearly 4,500 replies and quotes delivered to Cowherd about his tweet, most of them along those same lines: ‘Shut up, rich guy.’
And they all bring up a very good point. Maybe the reason Cowherd thinks the economy is so great is that his salary is $6 million per year. His net worth is over $25 million. In the late 2010s, he sold a home he owned in Florida for $3.9 million and another one he owned in Connecticut for $1.15 million. He then bought a $3.1-million home in Manhattan.
You know, like all of us do.
Something tells us that Cowherd isn’t clipping coupons and shopping for weekly sales at Safeway. Or struggling to afford gas money for his luxury cars which include a BMW and two – yes, TWO – Audis.
Cowherd’s wealth is his own. He earned it, and more power to him for that. But maybe, just maybe, before he tries to tweet about the economy again, he can talk to one of the engineers or associate producers on his staff – you know, people who make just a little less than $6 million per year – and ask them how things are going these days.
We don’t think they’d agree with him that “the economy is OK.”
