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...
Recession
Terrible GDP News
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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...
“Restaurant Recession” Update
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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: 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...
“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....
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...
Scary Economic Numbers …
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AMERICA’S ECONOMY MAY ALREADY BE IN ANOTHER RECESSION U.S. industrial output dropped on a year-over-year basis for the seventh consecutive month in March – yet...
Consumer Comfort Slides Over Economic Worries
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AMERICANS STARTING TO FRET THE FUTURE … Consumer comfort in America broke out of a thirteen-week holding pattern this week … just not in a...
Q1 Growth Estimate Implodes
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BAD NEWS GETS WORSE FOR U.S. ECONOMY … Last week the news about the U.S. economy was bad … this week it got downright terrible....
GDP Growth Weak In Fourth Quarter
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CONSUMERS, BUSINESSES NOT SPENDING … The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its preliminary “growth” estimate for the United States economy during the fourth quarter...