Consumer Comfort Retreats From 2016 Peak
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...
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Gallup: US Economic Confidence In Retreat
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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
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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?
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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
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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...
“Restaurant Recession” Spreads To Fast Food
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THIS IS HOW YOU (DON’T) SONIC … Four months ago we wrote about America’s “restaurant recession.” Looks like the downturn is turning downward … to fast food....
Jobs Disaster: Worst Print Since 2010
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LABOR FORCE IMPLOSION … The U.S. economy produced a dismal 38,000 jobs in May, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor...
Consumer Comfort Rises
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DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK … Despite lingering fear as to the overall health of the American economy, U.S. consumers showed surprising resilience this week....
Global Trade Is Collapsing
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DEFICITS IN TRADE … AND PUBLIC TRUST || By ROBERT ROMANO || Global trade is collapsing. In March, the U.S. trade deficit took a big...
Consumer Comfort: More Slippage
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BAD JOBS DATA HAVING AN IMPACT … Consumer comfort continues to erode as Americans begin to confront the reality of a worsening national economy. Bloomberg’s Consumer...