The state of the U.S. economy ahead of the midterms in five charts

With the midterm elections just days away, NBC's Christine Romans breaks down the state of the U.S. economy in five charts — gas prices, wages and inflation, mortgage rates, home prices and the S&P 500 — and speaks with Dan Burns, U.S. economics editor at Reuters.

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