Chart-Talk: If the Economy Is Still Good, Why Are Americans So Grumpy?
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The American economy motors on, with unemployment near record lows, incomes outpacing rising prices, the debt default averted, the stock market showing surprising strength, and the much-predicted recession still not in sight. Using the charts he brings to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and his New York Times op-eds articles, Steven Rattner will attempt to square why, then, American confidence in the economy is at such low levels.
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