Matthew Yglesias, Columnist

2023’s Economy Will Be Hard to Top, But 2024’s Just Might

The year ended with a flurry of good news for US consumers and workers, and it looks set to continue into the new year.

December 31, 2023 at 1:00 PM UTC

Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A co-founder of and former columnist for Vox, he writes the Slow Boring blog and newsletter. He is author of “One Billion Americans.”

There is good reason to be excited.
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The American consumer ended 2023 with a burst of economic good cheer, relatively speaking. (Which is to say: happier than they were a few months ago, not as happy as they were a few years ago.) Even better, they expect the good times to continue into 2024, for both themselves and the nation.

They’re right: There is ample reason to be optimistic about the US economy.