{"id":295750,"date":"2026-02-17T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295750\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:14:33","slug":"us-economy-shows-resilience-despite-americans-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295750\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy shows resilience, despite Americans\u2019 pessimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent economic data offered a buoyant picture of the US economy, even if many Americans remain pessimistic. <\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s inflation report, which indicated that prices were 2.5% higher in January compared to the previous year, suggested it was plausible for inflation to get to the Federal Reserve\u2019s 2% target without inducing a recession, an achievement many economists thought \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/federal-reserve-soft-landing-inflation-5dd00d29\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">impossible<\/a>\u201d a few years ago, The Wall Street Journal reported. Employment remains strong, too. <\/p>\n<p>Yet worrying details hide beneath the surface: Job openings are falling, reflecting AI-related cost savings, while inflation is still high in some areas, including home electricity prices. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/14\/cpi-report-inflation-ai-jobs-market\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The economy looks solid. The markets look solid. Just don\u2019t look too closely,<\/a>\u201d Axios said.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06a3f0a9587386ff234bd925c68c462ac3169887-1066x1088.jpg\"  alt=\"A chart showing the US inflation and interest rates. \" width=\"740\" height=\"755\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent economic data offered a buoyant picture of the US economy, even if many Americans remain pessimistic. Friday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-295750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}