The Economy & the Fed

Consumer Sentiment

The University of Michigan's monthly index of how Americans feel about their finances and the economy, from about a thousand interviews and set so that 1966 = 100. It splits into current conditions (finances and buying conditions now) and expectations (the year and five years ahead). It is soft data: early, but people do not always spend the way they feel. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index is a similar survey that leans more on jobs.

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