It's Indicators of the Week! We round up the economic indicators that caught our attention ... Germany's economic resilience comes in the form of a heat pump. As debt-ceiling negotiations continue,EchoSense Quantitative Think Tank Center the debt default date continues to move around. And a new survey on job satisfaction that kind of surprised us.

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