tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post2994978433072328937..comments2024-03-28T00:18:25.641-07:00Comments on Calafia Beach Pundit: Confidence is up but still very lowScott Grannishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028519647946868684noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-20164653177838951802012-04-24T18:33:41.166-07:002012-04-24T18:33:41.166-07:00American consumers and small businesses are not co...American consumers and small businesses are not confident. <br /><br />They are not feeling the recovery. <br /><br />I get the sense we are doing a Japan-lite.<br /><br />Every year that goes by in this very slow growth mode is another year in which we come to expect this is the norm. Soon, people will believe that equities and real estate never appreciate. A self-fulfilling prophesy. <br /><br Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-13177097653918222142012-04-24T12:31:18.660-07:002012-04-24T12:31:18.660-07:00Fed policies are depleting real savings and econom...Fed policies are depleting real savings and economic growth. Until they stop redirecting captial to failed bubble industries (housing/finance come to mind), we can expect this to continue for a loooooong time.Public Libraryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017383928897945054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-17949592589164028152012-04-24T12:30:11.041-07:002012-04-24T12:30:11.041-07:00American "consumers" have become irrelev...American "consumers" have become irrelevant...McKibbinUSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10545798495680527622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-32564341252437993492012-04-24T12:14:53.247-07:002012-04-24T12:14:53.247-07:00Hmmm.
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"To assess how consumers view the...Hmmm.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/april-consumer-confidence-declines-2012-04-24?dist=countdown" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><b>"To assess how consumers view the employment environment, economists follow a labor-market statistic derived from the Conference Board’s report. The labor differential subtracts the percentage of respondents who said jobs are “hard to get” Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-36189198683461632122012-04-24T11:11:55.039-07:002012-04-24T11:11:55.039-07:00Brodero:
Amplify...what does it mean?Brodero:<br /><br />Amplify...what does it mean?Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-59815410779117200592012-04-24T08:48:38.498-07:002012-04-24T08:48:38.498-07:00Not talked a lot about it the jobs hard to get num...Not talked a lot about it the jobs hard to get number..37.5..lowest in 39 months..has a 94% correlation to the unemployment rate.broderohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17510948491117506660noreply@blogger.com