I wondered how much consumers and citizens will be able to handle a constant "look over here", "I mean these people, they're bad, no these people!" of crisis type situations the the Trump administration insists on having ...
Some countries do operate that way with authoritarian regimes, not sure how much Americans are willing to tolerate it.
The relationship between those two things isn't necessarily clear.
> Testable hypotheses about the relationship between stock prices and consumer confidence seem to appear in the business press whenever new consumer survey data is released. Headlines like “Rise in Consumer Sentiment Sends Share Prices Higher” 1 and “Stocks Tumble, Spurred by Dive in Consumer Confidence” 2 suggest that stock prices respond directly to measures of consumer confidence. Previous research into the matter, however, suggests that the headline writers have it backwards – that the direction of influence runs only one way, from stock prices to consumer confidence, and that any stock price response to new information about consumer confidence is ephemeral.
If falling consumer confidence hurt consumer spending, this would be reflected in falling share prices in anticipation of falling earnings from consumers spending less
I wondered how much consumers and citizens will be able to handle a constant "look over here", "I mean these people, they're bad, no these people!" of crisis type situations the the Trump administration insists on having ...
Some countries do operate that way with authoritarian regimes, not sure how much Americans are willing to tolerate it.
That natural and obvious result of instability. Unfortunately, instability that was intentionally inflicted by a diseased mind that thrives on chaos.
this has to be one of the least useful metrics. The stock market goes up regardless. Consumers who are unconfident evidently don't stop consuming.
The relationship between those two things isn't necessarily clear.
> Testable hypotheses about the relationship between stock prices and consumer confidence seem to appear in the business press whenever new consumer survey data is released. Headlines like “Rise in Consumer Sentiment Sends Share Prices Higher” 1 and “Stocks Tumble, Spurred by Dive in Consumer Confidence” 2 suggest that stock prices respond directly to measures of consumer confidence. Previous research into the matter, however, suggests that the headline writers have it backwards – that the direction of influence runs only one way, from stock prices to consumer confidence, and that any stock price response to new information about consumer confidence is ephemeral.
https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bremmer/professional/consumer_c...
consuming the stock market?
If falling consumer confidence hurt consumer spending, this would be reflected in falling share prices in anticipation of falling earnings from consumers spending less
if the market was rational (which it is not)