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Government cuts could also contribute to such a reading, but private sector sentiment has taken a hit too, especially by the hokey cokey over tariffs.

What doesn’t is the hokey scene set in a Homegoods store where apparently small children with big designer dreams practice elaborate tablescaping.

While it might feel hokey to call Spangler a feel-good American success story, it’s about as close to one as you can get in corporate America these days.

Some people, it turns out, approach a hokey seasonal activity as they would an Olympic race: Speed is the goal.

But it was also a little bit hokey.