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Consumer sentiment slumps

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Marketplace

Business, News

4.68.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Americans are feeling worse about the economy. And that’s partly to do with fears about lasting inflation. According to the latest data, consumers expect inflation to rise three-tenths of a percentage point a year from now. Also in this episode: Why people are eating less fast food, how employers are helping workers with addiction recovery and what lower demand for second homes means for the general housing market.

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It's Monday, May 13th.

1:00.9

Good to have you with us.

1:02.4

If you caught Friday's show you heard economist

1:04.8

Nila Richardson say this about the American consumer. There's a downbeat

1:10.0

cinnamon like they're waiting for that other shoot a drop on their heads.

1:14.0

She was talking about how in spite of low unemployment, falling gas prices, and a rising stock market,

1:21.0

consumers are feeling pretty gloomy about the economy, partly because of their

1:25.4

fears about lasting inflation.

1:28.4

Today, more data to back that up, according to April's survey of consumer expectations out this morning from the New York Fed,

1:36.1

consumers expect inflation to be around 3.3 percent a year from now. That's up 0.3% from what they were predicting in March and the gloomiest

1:46.4

outlook since November. Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes has more.

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