This is horse pucky. The far-left clowns who write this crap might want to get out of the office more often. Stores have to be completely restocked nightly. Walmart can’t keep their shelves full. Cruises and week stays at Disney parks are overrun. People are buying the “cheap seats” at concerts and sporting events for a minimum of a thousand bucks. Don’t give me the consumer sentiment crap. Everybody is driving $70,000 “luxury pickups and SUVs and are moving to Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. This is commie BS.
Beverly Hills?
CNBC BS
Did Jim Cramer write this?
Slow close toilet seats. This is the second one in a week I installed. The Mrs used the one I put in her father’s bathroom and liked it. This morning’s Lowes project was getting one and installing it for her enjoyment. She loved the bidet. Now she loves the slow close, no slam lid. Happy wife, happy life.
“The far-left clowns who write this crap might want to get out of the office more often.”
My guess is that you’re referring to the University of Michigan economists would conduct the survey rather than to the Mediaite website which merely relayed the report.
Basing consumer sentiment on your anecdotal data points is nonsense. For one thing it’s without a statistical basis and for another its rearward looking. Airline and auto stocks have been pounded not because last quarter was bad but because their outlook is awful. [Full disclosure: I bought American Airlines in the anticipation that the cessation of hostilities would produce a snap-back rally.]
I’m in Cartagena, Colombia, this weekend for a wedding and the luxury mall by my hotel is crowded with shoppers. I’m sure the high-end US consumer is similarly well-insulated from higher gas prices and interest rates on their debt.
Middle class travel will be down this summer, as will first-time home buying.
And while you can kvetch about commie BS, the last time the UMich survey showed such a rapid drop in consumer sentiment was in ‘24 leading up to the general election.