For that matter, most of the more obvious choices for economic variables have performed about as well as one another on the historical data anyway. Each one gets some elections right and some wrong.

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This means that when economic equilibrium exists, all economic variables remain the same from their equilibrium values in the absence of external influences.

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Brent Schutte, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management CIO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss what the recent spate of sentiment data is worth, if the growth scare is deserved, and much more.

It's a notable shift from the Before Times, when we had a relatively clear sense of which variables were related to consumers' feelings and in what kinds of ways.

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