Nine weird recession indicators from lipstick to snacks.

There's a lot of talks right now about recession.

A lot.

A lot of people want it to happen.

Some people think it may happen due to some of the policies that we're having,

but we kind of need to go through it.

But let's take a look at this.

So nine weird recession indicators from lipstick to snacks, according to business insider.

Number one, snack index.

People buy fewer snacks during recessions with evidence from 2008 great recession showing reduced

consumption of snacks, fast food, and fresh produce.

General Mills, maker of checks mix and nature valleys's granola bars reported a 5% drop in net sales in Q3 of 2025.

We're not even in Q3. Is it orders? I don't know why it says Q3 here. Number two, mini alcohol bottle indicator.

Shoppers switch to many bottles of alcohol during economic uncertainty

instead of full-sized ones. And C.O. Losson-Witing says the reason small sizes are doing

well is more because of the cyclical inflation and it's consumer that's pinched. Okay. So if you're

ordering those many alcohol bottles, that's an indicator.

Three, lipstick index, coined by Leonard Lauder, billionaire air to Estee Lauder in 2001.

When lipstick sales rose during a recession.

Lauder's theory, lipstick sales and the health of the economy were an inverse proportion to one another.

Sales rose in 2001 by 11%, boomed in 2008 during great recession, and great recently despite high inflation.

Interesting.

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