The experts spent months predicting collapse. The media spent weeks running stories about tariff uncertainty, supply chain disruption, and consumer confidence cratering. The left spent the entire year insisting President Donald Trump’s economic policies were going to destroy the middle class.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday and laid down the numbers that make every doomsday prediction look embarrassing: 83,000 construction workers are currently building factories in America — a figure the country has never recorded before. Initial unemployment insurance claims are at the lowest levels since World War II. There are more job openings than there are unemployed workers.
