Philippe Laffont, founder of technology investment firm Coatue Management, discusses the gap between negative economic sentiment and strong consumer spending data.
“I bet you that now that the market's gone up, we look at sentiment in a month from now, and it'll be like, oh, sentiment's getting better.”
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