The *prima facie* resurgence of consumer sentiment in June, the first in half a year, intimates a more propitious assessment of the economic *milieu*, buoyed by persistent disinflationary trends and the Trump administration's provisional *détente* with China, as per the University of Michigan's preliminary consumer sentiment index, which burgeoned by 16% to 60.5, albeit remaining 20% below the apogee registered in December 2024; this amelioration is attributable, in part, to President Trump's deferral of tariff imposition on approximately 60 nations and the ephemeral Sino-American trade armistice, which has attenuated, *pro tempore*, the economic anxieties engendered by the protracted trade imbroglio; notwithstanding these salubrious developments, extant U.S. tariff levels remain elevated relative to historical benchmarks and are projected to exert a more deleterious influence on the economy in the *advenient* months, while consumer sentiment remains politically polarized, with Republicans evincing greater confidence in the Trumpian economic paradigm than their Democratic counterparts, although this month witnessed a generalized upswing in sentiment across the partisan spectrum, encompassing independents; the attenuation of consumers' inflation anticipations is likely to be construed favorably by the Federal Reserve in their forthcoming convocation.