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  Financial FAQs The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence sank to 98.7 this month from a revised 105.6 in August the Confere...

  Financial FAQs I said last month we know why the US economy is still growing. Consumers keep spending, and the unemployment rate, tho...

  Financial FAQs Why has the Fed got it so wrong with inflation, even though the inflation rate has been falling steadily for more than a...

  Popular Economics Weekly FREDretailsales Is it possible after years of pandemic and post-pandemic vicissitudes, the US economy is retu...

  Financial FAQs Calculated Risk Blog It’s hard to reconcile the recent downgrade of US Treasury debt by Fitch Ratings, one of the thre...

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