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Consumer Confidence Why It Predicts the Future

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Economist John Maynard Keynes and his 1936 phrase animal spirits get their own slide, followed by a prompt asking whether feeling better could lift the economy on its own. Extension notes tie a mid-2007 dip in the index to the recession that followed six months later.

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