Is AI Weakening America’s Animal Spirits?

Over the past decade, Pulsenomics has tracked American consumer sentiment and underlying economic impulses using more than 3.4 million data points collected to date from over 42,000 respondents to the Pulsenomics Animal Spirits Survey (PASS). What started as a data experiment and study of legacy confidence and sentiment indexes has evolved into a novel, systematic…

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Consumer Confidence in Housing is Building

  As reported last week, The Zillow® U.S. Composite Housing Confidence Indexâ„¢ (ZHCI) rose to 67.4 in January, an increase of 3.2 points from its level six months earlier and up 3.6 points year-over-year, indicating continued growth in positive housing sentiment within local real estate markets across the country. Analysis of the indicator indices underlying…

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