Whitaker-Myers Wealth Managers hosted First Trust Senior Economist Andrew Opdyke for a town hall type discussion about the state of the US and world economy in 2024 and their outlook for 2025. Items discussed were the state of the job market, personal consumption, manufacturing construction, inflation, global freight rates, S&P 500 earnings vs 10 year treasury yield, S&P 500 earnings forecasts, global adult literacy rates and finally the share of the world population living in extreme poverty.