https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/economy/Recent content in Economy on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usSun, 19 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/two-numbers-one-country/Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/two-numbers-one-country/<p>On Wednesday morning, a person reading the financial pages could have encountered two facts about the American economy within sixty seconds of each other. The first: the S&amp;P 500 had climbed back to a record high, erasing every dollar lost during the panic over Iran. The second: the University of Michigan&rsquo;s Consumer Sentiment Index had fallen to 47.6, the lowest reading in the survey&rsquo;s seventy-four-year history.</p> <p>Record high and record low, same week. Two measurements of the same country, arriving at conclusions so far apart they might as well have been measuring different planets.</p>