Posts Tagged ‘consumer confidence’
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 MoreConsumer Confidence in Housing is Building
As reported last week, The Zillow® U.S. Composite Housing Confidence Indexâ„¢ (ZHCI) rose to 67.4 in January, an increase of 3.2 points from its level six months earlier and up 3.6 points year-over-year, indicating continued growth in positive housing sentiment within local real estate markets across the country. Analysis of the indicator indices underlying…
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