Posted on 04/25/2025 11:27:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Consumer sentiment improved slightly in late April from earlier in the month but remained deeply depressed, weighed down by widespread concerns over inflation, tariffs, and a historic drop in confidence among Democrats.
The University of Michigan’s final reading of its Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 52.2 in April, up from a preliminary estimate of 50.8 but down from 57.0 in March. It marked the fourth consecutive monthly decline and the lowest final reading since July 2022.
The Expectations Index, which measures sentiment about the economy in the months ahead, fell to 47.3 in April, down from 52.6 in March. The steep three-month decline—more than 32 percent since January—was the sharpest drop in expectations since the lead-up to the 1990 recession.
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How heavy did they oversample DiMS-13?
We’re still reaping the results of Biden’s war on petroleum. Most fertilizer is a byproduct of oil refining. Biden’s sanctions on Russian fertilizer without having an alternative source resulted in the largest producer of fertilizer to reply in kind while Biden curtailed American oil production. As a result crop yields and acreage cultivated went down and prices went up. Trump opened the spigot again but it won’t impact food prices until the fall harvest.
People are being bombarded all day everyday with speculative doomsday propaganda…. A natural reaction to fear mongering is fear.
We should have more worthless polls.
The #TDS agitprop from the fake media is indeed off the charts.
Agreed, but he can't do it by himself. We have to do our part.
Buy American.
This may be our last chance.
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