Bonus points; many of the metrics cited are extremely narrow once a technical definition is revealed.
Unemployment only accounts for people who are without any kind of employment AND who are actively seeking employment. People in the gig economy don't count as unemployed. People on disability don't count as unemployed.
The GDP is a summation of the final prices of all goods and services produced in the United States. So those billion dollar arms deals for Ukraine and Israel count towards the GDP even though, due to the fact that it was financed on credit, which will almost certainly be paid off by taxes from US, Ukrainian, and Israeli citizens. Add to that that the assets of the ultra-wealthy tend to have insanely low liquidity - i.e., they are almost never sold once acquired - the net result is the money will be taken from citizens and handed to the ultra rich and the profits will go somewhere to disappear, never re-entering the economy.
The stock market is basically just a tally of an ongoing bidding/betting war on the intangible ownership of a hundred thousandth of a percent of a company, and can have little to no relation to the actual economic output of a company. One example of how this occurs is stock buybacks, where a company buys up its own stock. This inflates the price of the stock even though the company generally loses money on the deal - but often top level executives and, by definition, shareholders, hold those stocks, meaning they can sell the stocks to the company, or sell off their stocks at the new, inflated price, or use the inflated stock price as collateral on loans, effectively making stock buybacks often a kind of legal pump and dump scheme. The company actually hurts itself by expending capital that could be used on tangible investments or employee retention to make a few people who control it richer, and remember; once money goes into the hands of the rich, it rarely leaves their hands.
In short, the way we measure, understand, and teach the economy is generally insanely narrow. These metrics are often tailored specifically to help cook the books and make the pilfering done by the rich seem beneficial when it rarely is. This article is basically an outgrowth of this project; we created metrics to make the society seem palatable, and now they are being used to reinforce the society as the masses start to find the results of it distasteful.
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