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Negligible impact or not, the increasingly hazy economic indicators make Jerome Powell’s job all the more difficult.

But financial analysts have warned that they are contributing to worries in financial markets, hurting consumer sentiment and fuelling weakness across a range of other economic indicators.

Other economic indicators, including low unemployment and lower inflation in recent months, suggest a healthy economy.

Trump and Vance harp about a doomed economy because they need the economy to be doomed, but economic indicators aren’t cooperating with their spin.

Frustrating to Democratic stalwarts is the fact that not all voters have been moved by improving economic indicators, with the buying power of “real wages” growing nationally over the last year.