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Jul 2024
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Assorted business sentiment opinion polls are published, in an otherwise quiet data calendar. This, unfortunately, means that the surveys will get more attention than they deserve because talking heads have little else to talk about. Political polarization and biases in news cycles have depressed sentiment, which has tended to underperform economic reality. 
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