Will US Consumers Keep Spending?
May 31, 2022 Jason Furman explains why high inflation and declining real wages have not caused households to reduce their outlays.
Jason Furman
Jason Furman, a former chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Will US Consumers Keep Spending? 
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