GDP growth looks healthy. The Wall Street Journal reports the stock market keeps hitting records, as are gold prices, and unemployment remains relatively low, per Trading Economics. And yet, shop at a grocery store long enough and you’ll start to believe the economy is collapsing.
You’re not necessarily wrong for thinking that either, but you’re not tracking what economists track. Does that really matter, though? Because at the end of the day, where we feel inflation the strongest is in those must-buy situations, where we’re forced to watch our money evaporate.
