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⚠️CHART OF THE WEEK: Consumer confidence is collapsing for Americans outside the stock market
This is not a healthy economy
Global Markets Investor
January 17, 2026
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🔥GLOBAL MARKETS INVESTOR’S PORTFOLIO IS UP +72% SINCE JANUARY 2024
DURING THE MARCH-APRIL 2025 MARKET TURMOIL, MAJOR US INDEXES FELL NEARLY 20%, WHILE THE GMI PORTFOLIO GAINED OVER 5%, FIND OUT HOW BELOW:
Consumer sentiment among Americans who do not own stocks plunged to an all-time low.
This is even lower than 2022, when the US economy experienced the highest inflation since the 1980s.
Additionally, sentiment among households earning under $50,000 is at one of the lowest levels since the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers began in 1946.
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