Consumer

State of the American Debt Slaves: Forbearance & Free-Money Phenomenon amid Soaring Prices of Homes & Autos

by Wolf Richter • Aug 3, 2021 • 198 Comments

Mass-forbearance is the best thing that ever happened to sweeping reality under the rug. But now, there’s a huge mess under the rug.

People Made Heroic Efforts to Spend. Inflation Ate Their Lunch

by Wolf Richter • Jul 30, 2021 • 255 Comments

The big shift from durable goods to services is underway.

People Sure Are Driving a Lot, Gasoline Consumption Hits Record, But Flying & Mass Transit Lag Way Behind

by Wolf Richter • Jul 25, 2021 • 154 Comments

The miracles of the new economy.

Americans Pay More to Get Less: Retail Sales Outrun by Inflation

by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2021 • 219 Comments

Welcome to Fed’s New World of Inflation.

With Stimmies Fading, Consumers Dip into Credit Cards for First Time since 2019, But Only a Little. Everyone’s Relieved

by Wolf Richter • Jul 8, 2021 • 155 Comments

No one wants consumers to pay off their high-interest credit cards, least of all banks, and consumers had threatened to do just that.

Anatomy of San Francisco Now: Fewer People, Jobs, Tourists, & Businesses, But More Spending by the Hangers-on (But that Was Inflation)

by Wolf Richter • Jun 27, 2021 • 162 Comments

The recovery as it were, after everything went to heck but didn’t.

Pay More, Get Less: Consumer Income & Spending Chewed Up by Red-Hot Inflation

by Wolf Richter • Jun 25, 2021 • 184 Comments

Inflation ate my homework?

Most Important Measure of Fed’s Economy: My “Per-Household Wealth Effect Monitor” for Q1, Based on Fed Data

by Wolf Richter • Jun 21, 2021 • 266 Comments

How the “Wealth Effect” benefits Americans individually.

Despite Massive Price Increases, Retail Sales Drop: Buyers’ Strike & Fading Stimmies Dent the WTF Spike

by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2021 • 157 Comments

Americans are having to pay more to get less.

Subprime Auto-Loan Delinquencies, Which Had Exploded, Plunged after Stimmies. These Folks Are Now on Buyers’ Strike

by Wolf Richter • Jun 12, 2021 • 136 Comments

Investors in subprime auto-loan Asset Backed Securities should be genuflecting in front of US taxpayers to thank them for the backdoor bailout.

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