spending
What’s crazy to me is the US government is engaged in depression level deficit spending to keep the economy growing at 2%.
What’s crazy to me is the US government is engaged in depression level deficit spending to keep the economy growing at 2%. Its borrowing trillions and trillions of dollars it … Read more
Alasdair Macleod: Govt Welfare Spending Rising And Accelerating Alongside Credit Crisis
by Jay Taylor with Alasdair Macleod via Jay Taylor Media Alasdair Macleod, with a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist, discuss the magnitude of a collapse of the dollar system and why it appears … Read more
Consumers Plan For Record Holiday Spending
by UPFINA Healthcare is the biggest sector in the S&P 500, so it drives the market’s performance to a certain extent. It could be affected by the 2020 election as all … Read more
Odd Economic Numbers: Consumer Confidence Falls, But Consumer Spending Remains High
This article was written by Mac Slavo and originally published at SHTFplan.com While consumer confidence has fallen yet again, consumer spending remains high. In fact, for the third straight month, consumers … Read more
More Government Spending Won’t Make the Economy Grow
via mises: A key factor that constrains people’s ability to generate goods and services is the scarcity of funding. Contrary to popular thinking, funding for consumption and production is not about … Read more
US Card Spending Volume Peaked in 1Q18…. US Confidence Tumbles 3 Times At A Row
US Card Spending Volume peaked in 1Q18. Same story w $AXP at +10.34% YoY…has been decelerating since to just +5.96% YoY in 3Q19. There’s been a major downshift. Same on … Read more
2019: Year of “Spending More Time With Family”
According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, there have been 1,160 CEO departures in 2019 through Sept. This is the highest since they began collecting data in 2002. Given CEO confidence … Read more
JPM Card Spending in a major decelerating trend since peaking in 2Q17. The “Strong Consumer” isn’t accelerating in 3Q19.
$JPM 30+ Day DQs rising in Credit Cards, Auto & Mortgage…they are selling real estate loans partially coz of Standardized Capital but if DQs are going up perhaps cognizant of … Read more
The Fed Treasury Purchases Are Equal In Size To The U.S. Military Spending!
BY SRSROCCO While the silver price is trading at another important short-term technical level, the underlying fundamentals continue to improve. Since silver peaked at $19.75 at the beginning of September, … Read more
Mapped: Top Countries by Tourist Spending
by visualcapitalist Many people spend their days looking forward to their next getaway. But do you know exactly how much these vacation plans contribute economically to your chosen destination? Today’s visualization … Read more
Control Frivolous Spending In 6 Easy Steps
by Nilus Mattive via Daily Reckoning One of the downsides to saving large sums of cash is it starts to burn a hole in your pocket. When I was a kid, my grandparents … Read more
The narrative on CNBC today will be manufacturing is only 11% of GDP. Then they won’t tell you consumer spending on services, which is 45% of GDP, has seen its growth rate fall to a 5 and a half year low
The narrative on CNBC today will be manufacturing is only 11% of GDP. Then they won’t tell you consumer spending on services, which is 45% of GDP, has seen its … Read more
A Snapshot of the Tourist Spending Around the Globe
by howmuch Despite signs of a global economic slowdown, it seems that there is no stop on tourism growth. For many individuals, traveling is an ideal way to experience new cultures, … Read more
Dan Nevins on Yield Curve, Recession and Thin Air Spending Power
by FS As markets flirt with fears of a recession, many point to the recent yield curve inversion as a telling sign that recession is imminent. Financial Sense Insider spoke with … Read more
Retail Sales Shock: BofA Card Data Shows Plunge In August Spending
via Zerohedge: With the August payrolls report widely seen as disappointing, with less than 100k private payrolls added (despite accelerate wage growth), the last data point the Fed is waiting … Read more