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So before the war in Iran started, how were things going with the U.S. Economy?
So at the start of the year, if you looked at surveys about business or consumer confidence,
they were actually quite high relative to recent history.
Our colleague Dave Uberti covers markets and the economy.
Inflation was coming down and consumer spending was pretty robust.
You had an economy coming into the year where there was a lot of tailwinds.
There was optimism that the uncertainty from the tariff turmoil of last year was dying down.
There was optimism that President Trump's tax cuts would boost the economy in certain ways.
And there was optimism that the U.S. Consumer was pretty resilient after the last several years or so.