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Consumer Confidence Falls Again
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 10 April 2007
| Staff
Posted on 04/10/2007 6:31:35 PM PDT by shrinkermd
LOS ANGELES (April 10, 2006) Consumer confidence slipped for the third month in a row in April, with the IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index registering a pessimistic score of 45.5, an 18-month low. This is down 5.3 points, or 10.4%, from March's reading of 50.8 and 4.8 points below its 12-month average.
Over 50 means optimism; below 50 indicates pessimism.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: confidence; consumer; falls
It seems to be more than the price of gasoline.
To: shrinkermd
What’s my motivation here?
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:38:26 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: shrinkermd
And yet the unemployment rate is 4.4%. Seems like anyone who wants a job can get one.
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:39:44 PM PDT
by
petercooper
("Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime." - Nicole Gelinas - 02-10-04)
To: shrinkermd
Why is everyone worried if they all will get a raise in the minimum wage? And now that the Dems will raise taxes surely confidence will grow. /sarc
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:39:49 PM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: shrinkermd
The anti-American left-wing media wins again. As they support al-Qaeda have the secured their place in the Sharia law government or are they kidding themselves and will be some of the firsts with chopped heads? Wow put then on a stake!
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:44:35 PM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: shrinkermd
Lemmee guess... Somebody is trying to sell some gold?
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:44:35 PM PDT
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: Ramius
Wanna buy some gold and carbon credits?
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:47:36 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: shrinkermd
third month in a row... and the RATS have been in office for three months now... hummm...
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:49:54 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist)
To: shrinkermd
third month in a row... and the RATS have been in office for three months now... hummm...
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:50:23 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist)
To: Army Air Corps
Let’s change that headline just a little:
“In anticipation of another Democrat victory at the polls, consumer confidence falls again”
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:50:25 PM PDT
by
motor_racer
(Whatta you gonna do kid, shoot us all? No Ace, just you.)
To: motor_racer
Yep, that is much more to the point.
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:55:05 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: kinoxi
"...Whats my motivation here? Answer: As always seeking knowledge to replace ignorance.
To: Army Air Corps
I’ve decided to get into the carbon credits bidness. For every $100 you send me, I will certify that I will NOT burn one tire.
I think there’s a big future in this.
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posted on
04/10/2007 7:02:04 PM PDT
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: shrinkermd
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posted on
04/10/2007 7:03:25 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Ramius
for every $1,000 you send me, i will burn a life-size effigy of al gore
each one of these suckers weighs over 300 lbs - that’s only $3.33 a pound
the grease fat lights up the sky for miles around and warms the earth too
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posted on
04/10/2007 9:36:15 PM PDT
by
Enduring Freedom
(my axis of evil includes democrats and liberal media)
To: shrinkermd
It is healthcare spiraling out of control and baby boomers looking to retirement and knowing they are unprepared.
You can add that people see that we can not leave iraq but staying the course is not palatable either.
Add it all up and you get pessimism.
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posted on
04/11/2007 6:30:19 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: shrinkermd
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posted on
04/11/2007 6:32:13 AM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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