Sixty-four percent of Americans are more afraid of running out of money than of dying, according to a new survey by Allianz Life.
Tag: inflation
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42 PERCENT OF YOUNG AMERICANS ARE IN A FINANCIAL STRUGGLE
Among Americans under age 30, 42 percent report they are either “getting by with limited security” or “struggling to make ends meet,” according to a new survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
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MORTGAGE RATES CLIMB BACK UP OVER 7 PERCENT, CHILLING HOME SALES
On 11 April, the national average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose .13 of a percentage point to reach 7.1 percent, its loftiest since mid-February, according to Mortgage News Daily (MND).
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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE PLUNGES DEEPER
Consumers’ confidence in the U.S. economy sank deeper into darkness as Donald Trump’s tariff war escalated in the first week of this month, according to the University of Michigan’s initial April survey of consumer sentiment.
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SLAVELANDIA: FOUR IN FIVE AMERICANS ARE FINANCIALLY STRESSED
Seventy-three percent of Americans responding to a CNBC survey report being “financially stressed.”
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WALL STREET BARONS LOSE HOPES FOR TRUMP’S PROMISED “GOLDEN AGE”
Private equity firms are deferring, if not giving up, the new golden age of major dealmaking and swelling profits they expected when Donald Trump campaigned on promises of lower taxes and a softer regulatory touch.
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U.K. LOOKS TO BEEF UP ITS MILITARY AT THE EXPENSE OF ITS PUBLIC
As Gerald Celente has frequently noted, “When all else fails, they take you to war.”
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ITALY’S MELONI CRITIQUES EUROPE’S “TIT FOR TAT” TARIFFS
Europe’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, imposed in response to U.S. trade levies, risks a return of inflation, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni warned on the eve of last week’s meeting of European heads of state.
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TOP TREND 2025: THE TRUMP CARD
One of our Top Trends for 2025 is “The Trump Card.” As the old Bronx saying goes, “Bullshit has its own sound.”
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U.S. CONSUMERS CUT SPENDING AS MOOD CONTINUES TO DARKEN
Foot traffic in American brick-and-mortar stores was 4.3 percent less in early March than a year earlier, continuing a reduction in shopping that began early this year, research service RetailNext reported.