thestatedtruth.com | February 29, 2012
So, how do we do it…deleverage we mean? Uh, well, we need to spend less on cars and gas, and food, and housing and…healthcare, and buy less other things, and save more – oh, sorry about that last one, nothing left to save….. From Today’s Bloomberg Brief: The slow pace of deleveraging will continue to weigh on growth over […]
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thestatedtruth.com | February 24, 2012
We wouldn’t call this a surprise. Judging from the waiting time at the local restaurants, people are in a spending mood….and to boot we see a lot more construction going on, especially in light of a huge commercial and housing overhang. Confidence among U.S. consumers rose in February as Americans continued more hopeful about economic growth. The Thomson Reuters/University […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 30, 2011
Ugh….this should come as no surprise! The consumer makes up over 70% of the economy. August consumer confidence fell from 59.2 to 44.2 … below the consensus of 52, and dropping to its lowest level since April 2009. Even uglier is the 6 month outlook which fell from 74.9 to 51.9.
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thestatedtruth.com | July 29, 2011
Economically speaking, things slow before they reverse. That looks to be what we are doing currently. Whether we slow down more next year, then go off a cliff, or skip that part and fall off the cliff in the next six months will probably be a moot point. The U.S government is broke and not hiring new workers for the first time in our lives. In addition they’re […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 1, 2009
Bernanke Urges ‘Strong’ Consumer Protection in House Testimony By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers that protecting consumers of financial services is “vitally important,†while omitting prior criticism of an Obama administration proposal to shift such powers from the Fed to a new agency. […]
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