Adam Shapiro
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Yes, just on my website (for now)
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Economic news sentiment plunged in April during the time of tariff announcements, and has since only marginally recovered

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Economic news sentiment plunged in April during the time of tariff announcements, and has since only marginally recovered

www.frbsf.org/research-and...
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GDPNow (Atlanta Fed) is projecting Q3 growth at close to 4%

www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
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Taxes indirectly appear in G. If a country imports $10B in goods and then consumes them, the net effect on GDP is zero.
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The imports are consumed, so they go into C, it’s not like you can hold C fixed
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Definitely a lot of volatility on net exports and inventories this year
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That was certainly the case for Q2
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While employment growth is stagnating
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GDPNow (Atlanta Fed) is projecting Q3 growth at close to 4%

www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
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Problems now, bigger ones ahead.
The decline of reading
% of US teenagers who read in their leisure time...
50
Hardly ever
40
30
20
10
Almost every day
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Source: US National Assessment of Educational Progress Long-Term Trend Reading Assessments
FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch
OFT
2020
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We need an historical chart of attention spans
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There’s been a steady decline in moving, for both renters and home owners