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This year, the United States dropped out of the top 20 ranking in happiness for the first time since the report began a little more than a decade ago.

Investors watched carefully for dot plot changes, but instead got some much bigger news: Jerome Powell and the Fed see 2024 growth coming in at almost double what was expected.