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‘Mixed Feelings’
American consumers harbor "mixed feelings."
On one hand, they live in the US as opposed to, say, Gaza. So it could be worse. A lot worse.
On the other hand, they're broke, miserable and one pink slip away from moving their families to a van down by the river.
I'm just kidding. Mostly.
Consumer confidence moved up this month, according to the Conference Board's measure, which printed an above-consensus 103.3 in data released on Tuesday. That counts as a six-month high, but as the figure shows