US households resilient despite trade, markets

27 August 2019

 

US consumer confidence collapsed in late 2007 as the US housing bubble burst and the US economy went into recession. By 2016, it had clawed its way back to neutral and then went from strength to strength until late 2018. Since then, measures of consumer confidence have oscillated within a fairly narrow band at historically high levels. Recent figures have continued in this manner despite headlines of international discord and...

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