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The recent lack of official economic reports has sent economists and investors scrambling for other clues, including a spate of private-sector reports and estimates.

According to economists, however, the tariff revenue isn't nearly enough to cover the $2,000 rebate plan, even with the most generous assumptions and a narrow definition of those with incomes to qualify.

Retailers that source products overseas have been trying to avoid passing on costs to consumers, economists say, but that’s getting more difficult as pre-tariff inventory diminishes and profit margins narrow.

This past Friday, labor economist Guy Berger got to sleep in for the second month in a row.

“The overall stability in measured inequality may mask changes in the underlying distribution of income and wealth,” the economists wrote.