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How is the US economy doing? This should not be a difficult question to answer. After all, there are dozens of sophisticated, time-tested indicators across all facets and sectors to assess. The US has to be one of the most monitored economies in the history of the world. And yet, for the last few years, amid “vibecessions,” tariffs, “quiet quitting,” “quiet firing,” the rise of artificial intelligence, record-breaking equities, record-breaking gold prices, record-breaking crypto and a semi-frozen job market, nobody, it would seem, knows anything.