The Stimulus Hangover Is Here The government spent an eye-watering $4.6 trillion during COVID to keep the economy from completely imploding. Stimulus checks, loan bailouts, tax breaks—you name it, they handed it out. For the past five years, that artificial money rush has kept the illusion alive. But here’s the problem: the money’s gone. The economic reality is sinking in, and people are starting to feel it. Just take a look at the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Survey—more people now expect business conditions to get worse over the next year than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis. Investor sentiment? It’s even uglier. According to the American Association of Individual Investors, nearly 60% of investors are now bearish—double…
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