Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says the U.S. economy is at a perfect ‘Goldilocks pace’—neither too strong nor too weak to spook the Fed or markets

Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School (Credit: Denis Doyle—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

It's a fine balance keeping everyone in the U.S. economy happy at the moment. If consumer data looks too good the Fed might begin to tighten rates again—if it's too sluggish, businesses might suffer.

But somehow according to Jeremy Siegel, emeritus professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and senior economist to Wisdom Tree, that delicate equilibrium has been struck.