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That said, apart from anticipation of Trump sitting in the Oval Office, muted back-to-back inflation readings for December also buoyed animal spirits in the markets: All sectors of the market ended the week in the green.
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s tariff plans could be harming his ‘animal spirit’ investors
You’re all caught up.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is expected to end four years of tight regulatory oversight (if not overreach, by some critics’ assessments), setting free the animal spirits repressed amid post-Peak Streaming pullbacks, strikes and other complications.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Washington’s strategy assumes that China is in structural economic decline, its statist approach stifling the animal spirits of an economy at the mercy of the Communist Party and its general secretary, Xi Jinping.
—Reva Goujon, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Read more What People Think Opinions related to business and economic issues submitted to The Hill:
Fixing the missing ‘N’ in ‘NPR’: Public media must serve the American public at large
Trump’s tariff plans could be harming his ‘animal spirit’ investors
You’re all caught up.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is expected to end four years of tight regulatory oversight (if not overreach, by some critics’ assessments), setting free the animal spirits repressed amid post-Peak Streaming pullbacks, strikes and other complications.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Washington’s strategy assumes that China is in structural economic decline, its statist approach stifling the animal spirits of an economy at the mercy of the Communist Party and its general secretary, Xi Jinping.
—Reva Goujon, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Animal spirits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animal%20spirits. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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