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45. Consumer Sentiment (graph)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 01:14 PM

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143528951
These people clearly aren't buying the Trump economic narrative. There is a local peak right at the very start of 2025. Then it's been straight down except for a little recovery after the worst of the Liberation Day tariff fears (and after the corresponding stock market dive), and now it's heading back down again.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143528951#post4
There's also a 50 year version of the chart at https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsh.pdf for a longer perspective. It's very bleak -- we're at about the lowest level seen in the last 50 years, about matching the lows of 1980, and the 2022 peak-of-inflation low.
Other charts: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/charts.html

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And inflation is heating up. 3 month average, annualized: 3.5% (3.6% for the core CPI)
The August one month increase annualized is: CPI: 4.7%, (core CPI: 4.2%)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143528031#post12

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