Economists’ Expectations for the U.S. Economy
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:44.8 | It's Wednesday, April 17th. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm Anne Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:49.1 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today? |
| 0:56.5 | If you're a regular what's news listener, you know we spend a lot of time tracking economic growth, |
| 1:04.3 | inflation, and the level of future interest rates. |
| 1:07.4 | The Wall Street Journal's latest quarterly survey of 69 business and academic economists |
| 1:11.5 | shows they've ratcheted up their expectations in all of those categories. |
| 1:15.4 | A potential caveat though, these folks were surveyed just before the March inflation data, |
| 1:19.8 | showing a third consecutive month of hotter than expected inflation. |
| 1:23.2 | Let's get into the details with our markets and economics reporter, Sam Goldfar. |
| 1:26.8 | Welcome back, Sam. |
| 1:27.8 | Thanks. |
| 1:28.8 | So Sam, on last night's show, we talked about the International Monetary |
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