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Something Weird May Be Going On in the Economy

David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, offers a regular economic update for the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, noting that “something weird is going on” when broad measures of the labor market are looking better yet two-thirds of the voters say the economy is getting worse.

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