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Obama Boom: Consumer Confidence falls to 2 year low

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Headlines, Misery Index, unemployment at July 15th, 2011 - 1:30 pm

Despite the happy talk from David Frum and others, most Americans don’t see it that way. Consumer confidence has fallen to a 2 year low. Keep in mind that it was 2 years ago this summer, the Obama Boom was declared. As we all know, it was a myth invented by the media to create false confidence in the economy. Once again, this was called unexpected or in this case, short of expectations!

U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated in early July to the lowest level since March 2009 on increasing pessimism over falling income and rising unemployment, a survey released Friday showed.

Confidence in government economic policies also curdled, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey showed.

U.S. lawmakers are wrangling over a budget deal that would allow the government to raise the debt ceiling—needed so the United States can fund its obligations next month.

The preliminary reading for the consumer sentiment index dropped to 63.8 in July from 71.5 the month before, falling far short of expectations of an increase to 72.5, according to a Reuters poll of economists.

How’s that Obama Boom working out?

David Frum Promotes the Obama Boom

by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Progressives at July 14th, 2011 - 12:33 pm

Progressive and phony Republican David Frum once again shows what a shill he is for Obama. Despite the fact the Obama Boom has been proven to be a lie, Frum continues to push it. He has the audacity to claim that the economy is looking good!

It’s been a summer of bad news: Bad job news, bad housing news, bad Iraq news, bad Libya news, bad news on the Euro and the debt ceiling and — OK, let me change the subject to the good news. Because it exists, too.

1) Americans are pulling out of debt. Before the recession, households were spending 14 cents out of every after-tax dollar to service their debts. Today debt service costs 11.5 cents — and is still plunging. Americans have not spent this little on debt since 1995, and at the rate things are going, it won’t be long before households have de-leveraged themselves back to where they were in 1980.

David Frum is an elitist fool. He should get away from the cocktail parties in Georgetown and get into the real. I would love to see David Frum tell the average American that the economy is good. I would get popcorn for that!

No Obama Boom in 2011

by Phantom Ace ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, Special Report, unemployment at July 11th, 2011 - 11:03 am

Since 2009, Economic experts in the media have been proclaiming that the economy is booming. When confronted with anemic numbers, they claim it’s always a soft spot and that in the 2nd half of the year, the economy will soar. Well it’s already 1/2 way through 2011 and once again, no sign of this Obama Boom.

Economist Lakshman Achuthan, is one of the few who doesn’t push the Obama Boom. In fact he says there will be no recovery in 2011. He goes on step further, he predicts a recession in 2012.

As the financial world emitted a collective groan when the June jobs data crossed the wires this morning, Lakshman Achuthan was calm, unmoved and not surprised. In fact, the co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute says he’s seen it coming for months.

“The economy is down-shifting…you can see in the jobs number that the sand is shifting,” he says.

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With so much riding on – and priced into – an economic and earnings rebound in the second-half of the year, Achutan not only pours water on that, but ups the ante by saying he cannot rule out slumping into another recession in 2012. “You have a 4/10ths rise in the unemployment rate over the last 3 months. That doesn’t happen in an economy that is reviving or firming or gaining steam,” he explains.

 Lakshman Achuthan is spot on. There isn’t and there will not be an Obama Boom. It’s a media invention designed to create the illusions of a good economy to help the Obama Regime. What these clowns didn’t count on was something called reality. Obama’s policies have failed and no amount of spin will change that.

Obama Boom: Consumer Confidence falls in June more than expected

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Headlines, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, unemployment at June 28th, 2011 - 10:47 am

The Obama Boom myth continues to unravel before our eyes. Consumer confidence fell in June. Despite lowering gas prices, wages are still stagnant. No raises, mean no chance of improving your economic conditions. Once again, this report was worse than expected.

U.S. consumer confidence fell in June to the lowest point since November 2010 on concerns about the slack labor market and sputtering recovery, according to a Conference Board report released Tuesday.

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Consumers’ assessment of the labor market became more pessimistic. The “jobs hard to get” index rose to 43.8 percent from 43.5 percent, revised down from 43.9 percent the month before, while the “jobs plentiful” index fell to 5.2 percent from 5.7 percent, revised from 5.6 percent.

The American public doesn’t buy the media’s lies of a great economy. They see with their own eyes the stagnation of America’s economy.