Kyle Risdall

But we are still spending, even though we are cranky.

It is, of course, what drives this economy, and yet we're in a hiring, you believe, a hiring recession.

Six, eight months from now, where are we if we are still relying on consumers?

I mean, where's economic growth?

Where's the labor market?

Put your crystal ball on this for me.

Right.

Amara, last word to you.

What is the single biggest thing about this economy that worries you?

Amara Mokwe at Bloomberg on this Friday.

Heather Long, Chief Economist at Navy Federal Credit Union.

Thanks, you two.

Have a nice weekend.

Wall Street on this Friday.

Investors got their mojo back, kind of.

We'll have the details when we do the numbers.

All right, as promised, we're going to take a little trip in the consumer sentiment time machine right now, prompted by this morning's release of the December data.

Subdued is a word you might use.

We are feeling better than the lows of the mid-2022 post-pandemic lows, but close.

Might be hard to remember at this point, though.