Tracking Consumer Sentiment: An Economist's Journey into the Real World
Former Global Chief Economist for JPMorgan Chase (Ph.D. in Economics) & Current BrightQuery Chief Economist
Photo - GettyImages
Conventional wisdom has traditionally assumed that whenever the U.S. Misery Index (equal to the sum of the yearly rise in consumer price index plus the national unemployment rate) rises, consumers suffer a decline in consumer sentiment. However, since 2016, we have no…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The People's Economist with Anthony Chan to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.