Retail Sales Beat Expectations. American Shoppers Are a Hardy Bunch.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/december-retail-sales-today-consumer-spending-d365c9b1

Inflation and crime have both plunged, roughly back to prepandemic.
And people are behaving as if the nation is both prosperous and safe.
But that's not what they tell pollsters

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1741857863436263929

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