public reacted negatively<\/a>, anticipating price increases and raising worries over the health of the economy. Now, as the most recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed some impact on prices, consumer perceptions about the economy are rising.\n<\/p>\n Recent consumer sentiment surveys have shown that worries about inflation are fading even as Trump continues to threaten more tariffs. For example, a July survey of small business owners found significant improvement in economic expectations, while inflation worries subsided.\n<\/p>\n
Consumers Developing Resiliency Amid Economic Uncertainty <\/p>\n
One possible reason that \u201chard\u201d and \u201csoft\u201d data aren\u2019t moving in line is that consumers are developing more resiliency to economic uncertainty.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
“Consumers have developed stress tolerance, the ability to function normally while carrying constant anxiety,” said Katie Thomas, lead author of the Kearney Consumer Institute\u2019s Consumer Stress Index.\n<\/p>\n
Management consultancy Kearney reported that anxiety levels for U.S. consumers fell in the second quarter, partly because they are making more targeted decisions with their spending amid economic anxiety, Thomas said.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re living in an atmosphere of pervasive, ambient consumer anxiety. Housing stress, inflation fatigue, and optimistic jobs data all exist at once. These mindsets explain the resulting behavioral swings, often within the same week,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways Recent consumer sentiment surveys have shown rising optimism, while economic data show a weakening labor market…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115030280321286893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}