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(Source: @USCensusBureau)

People continue to be blindsided by the resilience in personal consumption growth.

According to Census Bureau data, retail sales in July increased by 0.7% to $696.4 billion. As many news headlines show, this pace exceeded many economists’ forecasts. (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.)

“The media was flooded with stories …