Isn’t this a little pessimistic? Unemployment is robust. GDP looks good. And black Friday has not even started yet….
The breakdown’s interesting. People rate their personal situation much more favourably than the general situation.
The phrase ‘Consumer Confidence’ always seems to me to be a really weird euphemism. People aren’t ‘lacking confidence’ a lot of them are just fucking skint.
Edit: Typo
Boom and bust wasn’t really abolished by Gordon Brown in 2007 you know?
Kind of expect holiday shopping to be the lowest in a decade this year, consumer confidence globally is at all time low, apples recent iPhone barely sold at all.
Consumer confidence ?? People just realised we are getting royally screwed.
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Isn’t this a little pessimistic? Unemployment is robust. GDP looks good. And black Friday has not even started yet….
The breakdown’s interesting. People rate their personal situation much more favourably than the general situation.
The phrase ‘Consumer Confidence’ always seems to me to be a really weird euphemism. People aren’t ‘lacking confidence’ a lot of them are just fucking skint.
Edit: Typo
Boom and bust wasn’t really abolished by Gordon Brown in 2007 you know?
Kind of expect holiday shopping to be the lowest in a decade this year, consumer confidence globally is at all time low, apples recent iPhone barely sold at all.
Consumer confidence ?? People just realised we are getting royally screwed.