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Consumer mood at a two-year high
21 hours ago ago from Machholz's Blog
Bulsh** A survey which measures how consumers feel about the economy rose to its strongest level in two years last month. The consumer sentiment index, compiled by KBC Bank and the Economic and Social Research Institute, rose to 64.6 from 53.3 in December. This has to be a lode of bull Who are these people that are being asks these questions, and who are the questionnaires Ask anybody, in the bars, hotels, on the ...
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16 hours ago ago from The Great Illuminator
BY: NCViking If Americans are confident in the economy and secure in their jobs and earning potential, they will spend and invest more. This has an enormous impact on the economy creating upward momentum. Alternately, if Americans are worried about losing their jobs and see doom for investments, or get pinched by exploding costs, then the economy is going to suffer. Cheap energy, low costs of doing business and optimism have been the ...
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18 hours ago ago from JOB CAREER.US
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14 hours ago ago from InvestigateWest
I've always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world you know, the Live simply, that others may simply live -type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual environmental good being done. It seems like a way for consumers who are feeling guilty about something say, those SUVs they drive to assuage their guilt by doing ...
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23 hours ago ago from Mark Lund on Money
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Quote of the month. “We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” – Ethel Barrett The month in brief. Wall Street had an eye on Washington for much of last month. Anticipation of earnings season gave way to concern over what might happen if proposed limits on bank risk went into effect, and what might happen if federal tax credits in the housing ...
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McDonald's sales figure rises 2.6 percent in Jan.
1 hour, 11 minutes ago ago from U.S. News
McDonald's sales figure rises 2.6 percent in Jan. NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's Inc., the world's largest fast-food chain, said Tuesday a key sales comparison rose 2.6 percent in January, as strong overseas sales more than offset a decline in the U.S. McDonald's has generally fared well in the recession as customers turned to it for cheap meals, but it has started to feel the pinch more acutely in recent months. It has still outperformed most ...
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