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Consumer Confidence Plunges—Is Government Control to Blame?

As tariffs and inflation fears rise, America’s economic divide deepens over control vs. free markets.

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Way Yuhl
Feb 25, 2025
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America's plummeting consumer confidence reveals deep cultural divides in how Americans respond to economic uncertainty and government intervention.

What's Happening

  • Consumer confidence index dives to eight-month low

  • One-year inflation expectations highest in over 1-1/2 years

  • Survey notes mentions of tariffs at levels unseen in six years

As confidence drops …

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Cultural theorist, geopolitical analyst, university lecturer, and full-time traveler. International relations, governments, and policies succeed or fail because of cultural. CP explains why. Pattern recognition based on evidence, not ideology.
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