Kyle Risdall

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.

As Marketplace's Samantha Fields reports, consumers didn't start this year feeling quite so down on this economy.

More than half a million people are expected to head for Kansas City, Missouri next summer for the World Cup.

Six matches in all, including an appearance by defending champion Argentina.

And if he's healthy, he said Lionel Messi.

Kansas City is the smallest of the 16 North American cities that are going to host games.