Still Waiting On “Spending Renaissance”
|| By FITSNEWS || U.S. consumers reported spending $87 per day in March (excluding mortgages, car payments and monthly bills) … up $4 a day...
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Cheap Gas Didn’t Stimulate Spending
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NOW WHAT? || By FITSNEWS || In case you hadn’t noticed (or you ride a bicycle), gas is cheap. Like … really cheap. In fact it’s so...
Retail Sales Slump
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THE AMERICAN CONSUMER ECONOMY IS STRUGGLING … By FITSNEWS || U.S. retail sales slipped unexpectedly in September as the consumer economy ended the third quarter...
U.S. Consumers: Tapped Out?
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The economy grew at a 2.8 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, reports the Bureau of Economic Analysis, up from 2.5 percent in the...