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 December: Powered by Tableau At 62.8, the Present Situation Index has gained 211% from its December 2009 low point,…
Tag: Economy
Consumer Confidence Inching Back to Normal
It’s been a few months since we visited the subject of consumer confidence, so let’s update our interactive chart again. You can drag the time sliders below the chart to view data going all the way back to 1998. Powered by Tableau At 56.6, the Present Situation Index has gained 180% from its December 2009…
Are Obama & Romney Avoiding Housing to Avoid Talking About Killing the Mortgage Interest Deduction?
There is one major political topic that has been mysteriously absent from both major presidential campaigns during this year’s presidential election season… housing. Nick Timiraos noted this in the Wall Street Journal in early September. Here we are in late October, four debates later, and nothing has really changed. Barely a peep about housing from…
Poll: In November, the US economy will be…
This poll was active 06.17.2012 through 06.23.2012
Reader-Suggested Economics Blogs
On this week’s poll about people’s favorite economics blog, readers suggested a lot of economics blogs in addition to the five in my poll. There were so many suggestions that I figured they deserve their own post to share them with the full readership. I have personally never read most of these, so consider this…