Think about cheese.

Make your thoughts cheesier.

Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt.

And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.

Did we mention it's cheesy?

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What we're seeing is a divide in kind of the sentiment, the feeling, the economic prospects.

And the divide is between those who are on the upper income end of the spectrum versus those on the

lower end of the income spectrum. Has there always been a divide? Yes. But right now that wealth effect is just so pronounced.

What we're looking at is this K, you know, going from a lowercase K to an uppercase K.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe. And the voice you just heard

is Mike Reed. He's an economist with the Royal Bank of Canada.

Focused on the U.S., he's going to talk to us about the K-shaped economy.

There's a little K, moving toward a big K, could be a special K.

Have some banana slices ready just in case.

Listening in is our audio producer Alexis Moore. Hi, Alexis.

Hi, Jack.

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I saw something about the 300th episode.

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