⚡️🚨 NEW - American morale at an all-…
⚡️🚨 NEW - American morale at an all-time low!
Consumer confidence index plummets to 50.3:
➥ 2nd lowest level EVER recorded (since 1978)
➥ 10 points below the level during the 2008 financial crisis
➥ -30% over one year
➥ Lower than in June 2022 (with inflation at a 40-year high)
Paradoxically, holders of large stock market positions have seen their morale rise by 11%.
It is nevertheless interesting to note that we are below 2008 levels without a banking collapse, credit crisis, or visible mass unemployment.
Just a slow erosion of living standards...