True inflation may have peaked in late 2022 — at 18% — and still hovers around 8%
“Consumer borrowing costs in the U.S. have skyrocketed, but the CPI doesn’t count this. ” There are widely divergent perspectives between Wall Street, where exuberance...
How Can Spending Be Up When People Feel Down?
Updated Dec. 27, 2023 12:00 am ET According to the Misery Index, Americans shouldn’t be all that miserable. But they might only recently have started...
Consumers Say 2022 Is the Worst Economy Ever
One of the biggest threats to markets fails a basic sanity check. The threat is that households are the most depressed they have been since...
‘Own some gold’ because consumer confidence is in the tank, says veteran chart watcher
Consumers are down in the dumps — and that stacks up as a positive signal for gold that shines brighter than many of the more...