At the end of April, Democrats across the country were licking their chops. There was a sense of chaos in the markets and that optimism was ebbing across the country in the face of the Trump tariff wars.
Consumer confidence slid to a five-year low at the end of the month, coming in under an already gloomy predicted lower score.
Consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in nearly five years in April as concerns about tariffs and trade uncertainty weighed on the economic outlook.
The Conference Board said Tuesday its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points to 86 in April, which is the lowest reading since May 2020. Economists polled by Reuters had projected the index would slide to 87.5.
If it weren’t for bad luck, we’d have no luck at all.
The Wall Street Journal went all out, climbing aboard the SS Trump Tariff Disaster and sounding the collision…
