http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/14459/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/consumer-confidence-only-news-when-its-lower <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/nathan-burchfiel">Nathan Burchfiel</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >     Is consumer confidence at an “all-time low”? The media say yes, but the facts say no. </p> <br /> <p >     “The market is tumbling, while oil prices are soaring; consumer confidence at an all-time low,” reported Savannah Guthrie on the NBC “Nightly News” Jan. 12, 2008, adding, “unemployment at a two-year high; retailers reporting the weakest holiday sales in five years; housing values are plummeting.”</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/consumer-confidence-only-news-when-its-lower" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Economy all-time buying consumerconfidence crisis high home housing investment Loan low money mortgage Recession record retail Spending stockmarket Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:28:30 +0000 admin 26377 at http://archive2.mrc.org