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The Most Insulting Economic Narrative
One of the big puzzles of the last few years has been consumer sentiment. The US economy and stock market have outperformed virtually every global economy and market. Wages have grown nicely in the last few years. And yet sentiment remains subdued. What gives? First, the debate is highly partisan. Sentiment by Democrats tends to be positive while Republican sentiment tends to be more negative. Interestingly, Independents tend to skew closer to Republicans. But let’s try to remove the politics here and see if we can’t pull some objective facts out of this data because the one nice thing about the consumer ... (full story)