Showing posts with label consumer savings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer savings. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Where Are the Jobs--Part II?

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 Financial FAQs “Job creation took a step back in 2025, with private employers adding 398,000 jobs, down from 771,000 in 2024. While we...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Consumers Are Unhappy

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  Financial FAQs “Consumer confidence declined for a fifth consecutive month in April, falling to levels not seen since the onset of the ...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

What Happened to the Budget?

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  Popular Economics Weekly “ The House Republican budget passed today calls for massive cuts in health coverage, food assistance, and hel...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Consumers Keep Shopping

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  Financial FAQs It’s no secret why the US economy is still growing and fully employed. Consumers have kept spending, and such activity a...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Big Rise in Q1 Economic Greowth

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  Popular Economics Weekly BEA.gov Economic growth in Q1 2023 was much better than pundits and economists predicted. First Quarter rose ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Retail Sales Still Healthy

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  Financial FAQs Calculated Risk/Census Bureau Why do consumers keep spending when so much news warns of an impending recession? Well, ...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Consumer Incomes/Sentiment Still Rising

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  Financial FAQs BEA.gov January consumer spending rose 1.8 percent (orange bar in graph) in a month, while personal incomes rose 0.6 p...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Higher Retail Sales Herald Better New Year

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  Popular Economics Weekly F REDretailsales Now we have retail sales also surging in January, on the heels of a terrific unemployment r...