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The Matrix of Consumer Discontent
The past two years have been very good for the U.S. economy. Unemployment has crept up a bit, but not by a lot, and the employed share of Americans in their prime working years is higher than, to make a random comparison, it was at any point during the Trump years. At the same time, inflation has come way down, defying the pessimistic predictions of many economists.
Here, for example, is a comparison of the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of underlying inflation with a...