It’s time for another update of our interactive chart of Consumer Confidence. You can drag the time sliders below the chart to view data going all the way back to 1998.
Here’s the data as of March:
At 57.9, the Present Situation Index has gained 187% from its December 2009 low point, but fell 6% from its February level. The index is at roughly the same place it was in September 2008. The expectations index also fell in March, dropping 16% from its February level.
It will be interesting to see if the ongoing “sequestration” cuts combined with the increasingly noisy posturing from North Korea have an effect on Consumer Confidence this month.
Where’s Pffft When We Need Him?
He’ll tell us inflation is only like 1-2%, we should be buying things like crazy….food and gas don’t matter, they aren’t in the inflation anyway….
Who needs consumers? Screw ’em.
The graphic doesn’t work for me. I use NoSccript to prevent malware install. Which of the 11 domains running scripts on this page is the one providing the graph? Thanks for everything else. The blog usually works fine.
RE: NESeattleSeller @ 3 – There’s a script running on this domain and one running at https://www.google.com/jsapi
RE: The Tim @ 4 –
doesn’t work.
It works if you use Google Chrome.
By softwarengineer @ 1:
are you serious? inflation IS about 2% and yes food and gas are in the CPI. this is just neverending. the Fed looks at core CPI because CPI is more volatile. they don’t want to make rash moves and raise or lower rates due to what might be temporary price movements. food and gas are volatile. they could give false signals.