The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) said personal income gains beat the consensus forecast in April, rising $92.8 billion (0.5%). The reflected increases were fueled by personal interest income, wages and salaries, and government social benefits to persons. Disposable personal income (DPI) rose $69.3 billion (0.4%) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) gained $40.8 billion (0.3%). […]
A Quarter Trillion Dollars in U.S. Savings Was Just “Wiped Away…
As part of its historical revision to GDP, the BEA also had to adjust personal income and spending, with the full results released in today’s July report. What it revealed was striking: over the revised period, disposable personal income for US household was slashed cumulatively by over $120 billion to just under $14.4 trillion, while […]
The Biggest Washington Whopper Yet…
You can’t find lazier people than in the mainstream financial press, but their exuberant cheerleading about the purported 5.2% gain in the real median household income in 2015 surely was a new high in mendacity…
Harvard Crushes The “Obama Recovery” Farce With 9 Simple Charts…
In a recent study entitled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Harvard University points out that, despite claims of an “Obama Recovery,” in fact, the U.S. economy has continued to deteriorate…