Posts Tagged ‘consumer sentiment’
An Overlooked Fault Line in American Animal Spirits: Homeowners vs. Renters
In recent years, much of the media narrative about consumer confidence has focused on the partisan sentiment gap, where Republicans and Democrats flip-flop on optimism based on which party holds the levers of power in Washington D.C. In our “K-shaped” economy, surveys also reveal a confidence chasm between upper- and lower-income population cohorts. But there’s…
Read MoreIs 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…
Read MoreEconomic curse words (nine letters, not four)
In the most recent Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey, we asked over 100 expert panelists to weigh-in re: their expectations for (CPI) inflation and economic recession in the U.S. The survey was conducted over a two-week period ended May 9th. The I-word: Inflation During the survey field period, the latest (March) CPI print was…
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