May allow for rate cuts sooner? Other than inflation on certain items, things aren't awful. You can find a job if you want one. Retirement and other accounts up big. I realize most of us are above the average American from a financial standpoint, but where I live in Central Illinois restaurants are packed as is the regional airport parking lot.
I don’t disagree. But the optimism is lacking.
www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsr.pdf
That’s a real problem.