*The market spent all week celebrating two beautiful grades — a cool inflation report Wednesday, a soft producer-price reading Thursday, records both days. Then this morning at 8:30 the household budget notebook fell open: American consumers spent 0.6% less in July, the sharpest pullback in more than a year. Here's the uncomfortable arithmetic nobody at the party wants to do — the improved grade and the empty restaurant are the same fact, wearing different costumes. The whole week, read slowly,
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