To some extent it always happens; some talking heads have predicted all 20 of the last two recessions. It does seem slightly more OTT recently, though. Possibly part of it is just that people have been expecting a big global recession for so long now; really ever since late 2021 a lot of people have been claiming there'll be one any minute now. At this point it's so much in peoples' heads that any wobble looks like the end.
