Powell: Strength of the economy has 'surprised us'

Essentially the economy has once again surprised us with its strength not for the first time. Uh and you know consumer spending although it's you know it's uneven across income categories but consumer spending overall numbers are good and um we're benefiting from the you know from the AI buildout of data centers. That's that's another thing we're benefiting from.But economy overall growth is growth is um is on a solid footing it looks like. And and it's not just those things. It's it's just the consumers th ...