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US consumer confidence rises to highest level since 2000
Associated Press ^ | Feb 27, 2018 12:23 PM EST | Paul Wiseman

Posted on 02/27/2018 8:42:27 PM PST by Olog-hai

American consumers are the most confident they’ve been since 2000.

The Conference Board says its consumer confidence index rose to 130.8 in February, highest since November 2000 and up from 124.3 in January.

The business research group’s index measures consumers’ assessment of current conditions and their outlook for the next six months. They feel better about today’s economy than they have since March 2001. Their outlook also improved.

Tax cuts passed into law last year are starting to show up in workers’ paychecks. “As people slowly absorb the details of the tax reform package, opinion polls suggest that it is becoming significantly more popular,” Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, wrote in a research note. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: conferenceboard; consumerconfidence; maga; taxcuts; trumpeffect

1 posted on 02/27/2018 8:42:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

This was all set up by Obama, yet Trump is trying to claim the credit.


2 posted on 02/27/2018 10:53:59 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Oh indeed. Everything’s Obama in 2018.


3 posted on 02/27/2018 10:59:34 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Everything’s Obama in 2018

Except for the bad stuff. That's because of Trump. And Russia.

4 posted on 02/27/2018 11:05:12 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

And the NRA. And “fascists/Nazis”.


5 posted on 02/27/2018 11:22:54 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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