Personal Income and Outlays... A Few Charts

The Economic Populist notes: While disposable income increased by 0.4%, when adjusted for inflation, disposable income was actually a 0.2% ...

Taking a Look into Disposable Personal Income

Marketwatch provides detail on a trend that will be important to keep an eye on: Consumer spending is rising at tortoise’s pace for a very ...

Checking in on Personal Consumption

Reuters details U.S. consumer spending was flat in December as households put the largest rise in income in nine months into their savings,...

Something Sustainable

Over the past twelve months the rate of personal spending is up even though personal savings has risen (the obvious key is that personal wag...

The Story of Income and Outlays

Let me walk through the below chart, which I think tells a very broad story of where we were, what happened during the crisis, and how we ar...

Personal Income Rebound is Widespread

The chart below shows the year over year change in personal income across regions. In my opinion, the key is not to analyze which regions ha...

No Bounce in Income

Marketwatch details: The savings rate for U.S. households fell to its lowest level in more than a year in September as incomes fell and spe...

Personal Income Breakdown

Yesterday, EconomPic detailed the slow growth in real personal income over the latest decade. Below we break down the contribution of real...