People should spend time in grocery stores if you want to see the real economy. People are having a hard time paying for transportation, rent and food to house and feed themselves and their children. I am not sure what percentage of the US population benefits from rising stock prices but there are a lot of older people and families who do not benefit in any material way.
2023 was a very good year - period (unless like one poster here - you do not trust commerce department numbers)
2024 - ? --- seems (to me !) that CPI inflation is down to 2-4 percent (yes large gap) and that job growth will go down from say 2 million a year to 500,000 over next 12 months (I think revisions will all be downward as well)