With less than three weeks until the U.S. presidential election, millions of Americans say the economy is a top issue as they decide how to cast their vote. It is an understandable focus after the rollercoaster of the past four years, which included everything from a bear market to the hottest inflation since the 1980s. But with the chaos of the pandemic behind us and inflation edging close to its pre-2020 levels, the U.S. economy is ripe for a fresh assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, along with whether the Biden administration's economic policies have paid off. By many measures, the U.S. economy has regained its footing, emerging from the health crisis with the type of growth that it experienced prior to 2020. Gross domestic product is growing solidly, while unemployment and the labor market have also rebalanced, remaining close to their pre-pandemic levels. Critically, inflation has dropped to a three-year low and is approaching the Federal Reserve's annual target of 2%. To the surprise of many forecasters, that rebound occurred even as the Fed boosted interest rates to a 23-year high in an effort to cool inflation. Historically, such rate hikes have often led to recessions. But so far, the U.S. has avoided a downturn, and instead appears heading for a "soft landing," or when the economy continues to grow and the job market remains strong despite the headwinds of higher rates. "In the 35 years I've been an economist, I've rarely seen an economy performing as well as it is," Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics who has previously advised presidential candidates from both parties, told CBS MoneyWatch. "I'd give it an A+." Like Zandi, many other experts are giving the economy strong marks. The U.S. economy is "hot, hot, hot," noted Yardeni Research in an October 17 report. The job market is "resilient" and "there is no quit in the U.S. consumer," analysts at Oxford Economics told investors this week. Yet many Americans might scoff at such bullish assessments: 6 in 10 now describe the U.S. economy as either "fairly bad" or "very bad," according to CBS News polling. That's not lost on Zandi and other economists. "The difference between the happy talk of economists and what people say has never been this wide," he noted. Only 1 in 10 Americans rate the economy as "very good," according to CB News poll of registered voters taken between October 8-11. Meanwhile, about 52% of Americans say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, Gallup found in a new poll. "Despite recent economic data suggesting the labor market, consumer spending and the overall economy are proving to be very resilient and strong, consumers' sentiment about economic conditions and future prospects remain downbeat," Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide, told CBS MoneyWatch.
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An historical achievement for america the growth of 2.8% GDP. do you think that this may not be enough to reconfirm the current administration that has done well in terms of economic support to the growth? At this point one's own idea of America will be more important in voting for the president instead of the real numbers? are these just ideological elections?
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1moThe discordant economic views among experts and typical Americans reflects several factors. First, and perhaps most pressing in the short-term, prices around the U.S. remain elevated even as the searing inflation that followed the pandemic descends to normal levels. Second, economists tasked with the complexity of deciphering a $29 trillion economy naturally rely on broad metrics such as GDP, the Consumer Price Index and the nation's unemployment rate. Yet such data, even when bolstered with consumer confidence surveys and other public sentiment measures, don't capture the far more nuanced financial realities facing households. For many Americans, their perceptions are shaped less by fluctuations in growth rates or monthly job gains than by the more palpable daily struggle to pay for food, rent and health care. Third, mounting inequality in wealth and income has made successive generations of Americans more vulnerable to economic crises at the same time that traditional financial milestones, such as owning a home, become harder to achieve.