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consumer spending

  • Macy’s and Target Give Cautious Sales Forecasts, Suggesting Consumer Spending Slowdown
    Macy’s and Target Give Cautious Sales Forecasts, Suggesting Consumer Spending Slowdown
    Macy's and Target signal potential consumer spending slowdown with cautious sales forecasts amid inflation and economic uncertainty.
    August 21, 2024BY Tom Ozimek
  • Inflation News From China Tells a Sorry Tale
    Inflation News From China Tells a Sorry Tale
    Deflation at the factory gate reveals serious and fundamental economic distortions.
    July 27, 2024BY Milton Ezrati
  • Fed President Points to Several ‘Warning Signs’ for Economy
    Fed President Points to Several ‘Warning Signs’ for Economy
    He singled out rising unemployment claims, increases in debt delinquency rates, and what seems to be cooling in ...
    June 24, 2024BY Tom Ozimek
  • Rue21 Files for Bankruptcy, Closing Over 540 Stores
    Rue21 Files for Bankruptcy, Closing Over 540 Stores
    The company announced a ‘going out of business’ sale, offering items at a 30-50 percent discount.
    May 5, 2024BY Naveen Athrappully
  • Record Household Debt Suggests Consumers Facing Financial Strain
    Record Household Debt Suggests Consumers Facing Financial Strain
    A resilient consumer could become a more budget-conscious one this year, experts warn.
    February 19, 2024BY Andrew Moran
  • US Holiday Retail Sales Slow From Last Year, Mastercard Data Show
    US Holiday Retail Sales Slow From Last Year, Mastercard Data Show
    Consumer spending outlook for 2024 remains mixed.
    December 28, 2023BY Andrew Moran
  • You Can’t Eat the GDP
    You Can’t Eat the GDP
    Commentary Well, that was one of the more interesting haircut experiences I’ve had in a while. The lady ...
    October 26, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Ex-Walmart CEO Says US Consumers Reaching Breaking Point
    Ex-Walmart CEO Says US Consumers Reaching Breaking Point
    Political polarization, inflation, and high interest rates are all working together to undermine consumers and their propensity to ...
    October 13, 2023BY Tom Ozimek
  • US Economic Growth at 2.1 Percent in 2nd Quarter Because of Lower Business Spending
    US Economic Growth at 2.1 Percent in 2nd Quarter Because of Lower Business Spending
    U.S. Economic Growth Revised To 2.1 Percent In Second Quarter, Due To Lower Business Spending.
    August 30, 2023BY Bryan Jung
  • Consumer Spending Grows by Just 0.1 Percent in May, Inflation Remains High
    Consumer Spending Grows by Just 0.1 Percent in May, Inflation Remains High
    U.S. consumer spending stalled in May to the lowest growth rate this year as inflation remained elevated. Consumer ...
    July 1, 2023BY Naveen Athrappully
  • UK Economic Growth in April Driven by Consumer Spending: ONS
    UK Economic Growth in April Driven by Consumer Spending: ONS
    The UK economy rebounded in April, following weaker performance in March, official figures have shown. Britain’s GDP increased ...
    June 14, 2023BY Evgenia Filimianova
  • Robust Consumer Spending Could Be Bad News for Inflation
    Robust Consumer Spending Could Be Bad News for Inflation
    News Analysis American consumers are proving to be more resilient than many market experts had expected in the ...
    May 30, 2023BY Andrew Moran
  • Vote With Your Wallet!
    Vote With Your Wallet!
    Commentary In graduate school, I encountered the disturbing theory that your vote doesn’t actually count for much. We ...
    May 30, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Retail Sales Come in Below Expectations After 2 Months of Declines
    Retail Sales Come in Below Expectations After 2 Months of Declines
    U.S. retail sales rose slightly in April but fell below expectations after two months of declines. Retail sales ...
    May 17, 2023BY Bryan Jung
  • ANALYSIS: After a Strong Opening, China’s Economy Begins to Falter
    ANALYSIS: After a Strong Opening, China’s Economy Begins to Falter
    News analysis Not even a month ago, reports of a first-quarter consumer-spending surge created much enthusiasm about China’s ...
    May 16, 2023BY Milton Ezrati
  • Consumer Spending Is Not the Cause of the Current Inflation
    Consumer Spending Is Not the Cause of the Current Inflation
    Commentary  In the United States, consumer spending is increasing not from a rise in income but from a ...
    January 13, 2023BY Paul Craig Roberts
  • Americans’ Spending Expectations Fall Sharply in Warning Sign for Economy: New York Fed
    Americans’ Spending Expectations Fall Sharply in Warning Sign for Economy: New York Fed
    Americans are planning to spend less in the near term, according to a December 2022 survey from the ...
    January 9, 2023BY Tom Ozimek
  • American Consumer Sentiment Plunges While Inflation Expectations Rise
    American Consumer Sentiment Plunges While Inflation Expectations Rise
    Consumer sentiment fell last month while expectations of inflation among the general populace rose, according to a University ...
    November 12, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully
  • The GDP Offers No Comfort
    The GDP Offers No Comfort
    Commentary After two quarters of decline earlier this year, the nation’s real gross domestic product (GDP) ticked up ...
    November 4, 2022BY Milton Ezrati
  • American Express Sees ‘Mixed Signals’ in Economy but Consumer Spending Still Strong
    American Express Sees ‘Mixed Signals’ in Economy but Consumer Spending Still Strong
    The CFO of American Express said that consumer spending trends remain strong, despite acknowledging “mixed signals” in the ...
    October 22, 2022BY Bryan Jung
  • Americans’ Spending Expectations Plummet, Fresh Warning Sign for the Economy
    Americans’ Spending Expectations Plummet, Fresh Warning Sign for the Economy
    Household spending expectations have fallen in the month of August amid elevated inflation rates, signaling potentially bad days ...
    October 12, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully
  • How Bad of a Recession? It Depends on the Consumer
    How Bad of a Recession? It Depends on the Consumer
    Commentary Consumer spending drives two-thirds of the U.S. economy. But the resolve of American consumers will be put ...
    August 29, 2022BY Fan Yu
  • Cost-of-Living Crisis Hits US Households
    Cost-of-Living Crisis Hits US Households
    Economists have pasted many labels on today's economic landscape: recession, stagflation, or an economy that's transitioning to slower ...
    August 23, 2022BY Andrew Moran
  • Here Is What Stagflation Looks Like
    Here Is What Stagflation Looks Like
    Commentary Yes, we have some stagflation. Subsequent to the pre-COVID peak in Q4 2019, real final sales of ...
    August 4, 2022BY David Stockman
  • Inland Empire Warehouse Region Reports Record-Low Capacity as ‘Bullwhip Effect’ Strikes US Economy
    Inland Empire Warehouse Region Reports Record-Low Capacity as ‘Bullwhip Effect’ Strikes US Economy
    The largest warehouse market in the United States is reaching full capacity after several months of slowing retail ...
    August 3, 2022BY Nicholas Dolinger
  • Fed Report Reveals Nationwide Economic Slowdown, Increased Fear of Recession
    Fed Report Reveals Nationwide Economic Slowdown, Increased Fear of Recession
    The Federal Reserve's most recent Beige Book report has raised concerns about inflation and a slowdown of the ...
    July 14, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully
  • Bank of America Reports Slowdown in Consumer Spending
    Bank of America Reports Slowdown in Consumer Spending
    An analysis of Bank of America’s (BoA) aggregated credit and debit card spending growth per household has shown ...
    July 12, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully
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