“Call it the Big Whiff — last year at this time, most economists, many journalists and a lot of regular folks felt certain that the U.S. was headed into recession,” Axios reports.
“We weren’t. The failure of the U.S. economy to, well, fail in 2023 was one of the year’s biggest and happiest surprises, the top of a list of horribles that failed to materialize.”
The Washington Post reports Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein sees “a glimmer of evidence” that public opinion on the economy is getting better.
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