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Consumers' collective feeling about the economy isn't matching our spending behavior

Something is puzzling our Planet Money podcast team - two economic indicators behaving unusually. The first is consumer sentiment - our collective feeling about the economy. The other is consumer ...
NPR

Consumers' collective feeling about the economy isn't matching our spending behavior

There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.
KUOW

Consumers' collective feeling about the economy isn't matching our spending behavior

There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.
Cfr.org

The U.S. Economy Is Growing, but Faces Much Uncertainty

A food shopper browses for groceries ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday at an Albertsons supermarket in Redmond, Washington, on November 24. David Ryder/Reuters A quarterly review finds that the ...
Forbes

Sleep Token Charts A New No. 1 Album Seemingly Out Of Nowhere

Sleep Token's This Place Will Become Your Tomb hits No. 1 for the first time, doubling the mysterious band's count of chart champions. LEEDS, ENGLAND - AUGUST 27: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (EDITOR'S NOTE: ...
USA Today

Does the U.S. have a 'K-shaped economy'? What it means for you.

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...
CoinDesk

Coinbase's New Platform Brings Back Digital Token Offerings

Coinbase (COIN) is introducing a new token sale platform that aims to reboot public crypto offerings with protections designed to prevent the problems that plagued the 2017-2018 initial coin offering ...
PBS

Trump may become the face of a deteriorating economy, a year after such worries helped him win

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump got a serious warning from voters that he’s out of touch with their fears about a deteriorating U.S. economy. Democrats were able to run up the score in key ...
Fast Company

How the U.S. economy is defying gravity—and how insights into human behavior help us understand why

U.S. economists may be barely holding on by the edge of their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, consumers don’t seem to care. When Donald Trump entered his ...
CNN

The US economy grew at a 3.8% rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than previously reported

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest ...
Digi Times

Expert urges token economy for wider AI benefit

Taiwan's AI-driven semiconductor and server supply chains are growing rapidly, but experts say the wider economy and public benefit little. There are increasing calls for the government to spearhead ...