Consumer Comfort Dips
WEAKENING PERSONAL FINANCIAL OUTLOOK DRIVES DECLINE … Bloomberg’s weekly Consumer Comfort Index (CCI) slipped to its lowest level in three months – driven by a...
U.S. economy
Ron Paul: The Phony Jobs Recovery
by Letters
GOVERNMENT POLICIES PRODUCING STAGNATION, NOT GROWTH … || By RON PAUL || Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that...
Terrible GDP News
by FITSNews
AMERICA’S ECONOMY IS STUCK IN NEUTRAL The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of just 1.2 percent during the second quarter of 2016. That’s...
Government Admits It Rigs GDP Growth
by FITSNews
“FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT” ISN’T WORKING … So you think the economic growth America has witnessed over the last decade-and-a-half has been weak? Imagine how...
“Restaurant Recession” Update
by FITSNews
GRIM NEWS FOR GRUB PEDDLERS … Back in February we wrote on the beginnings of a “restaurant recession” in the United States. And last month...
Consumer Comfort Retreats From 2016 Peak
by FITSNews
BIG DIP IN “BUYING CLIMATE” TO BLAME Consumer comfort in the United States retreated from its 2016 high this week due to a sharp drop...
Gallup: US Economic Confidence In Retreat
by FITSNews
WHERE IS THE RECOVERY AGAIN? Americans cannot seem to shake their chronic concern about the health of the U.S. economy – a narrative that runs...
June Jobs Report: From Famine To Feast
by FITSNews
EMPLOYMENT REBOUND? The federal jobs report released last month was an unmitigated disaster – the worst print since 2010. The one released today? Quite the opposite …...
Consumer Comfort: End To The Uptick?
by FITSNews
QUARTERLY SLIPPAGE … On a quarterly basis, consumer comfort in the United States has risen rather robustly over the past five years. It’s still not...
Consumer Comfort: Partisan Split
by FITSNews
DEMOCRATS BEARISH, GOP BULLISH … If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: “Republicans” and Democrats in Washington, D.C. differ little on...