📈 Chart of the Week 8/16/2026 By Michael Allison, CFA Is the Gap in the K-Shaped Economy Narrowing? The “K-shaped economy” became shorthand for a two-track world: the top arm of the K climbing while the bottom stalls or slides. We have been living inside that letter for several years now, and most of the recent data has done nothing to challenge it. The last few weeks brought some genuinely soft prints, enough to have people whispering about a labor market cooling and possibly even a...