Mixed Data
03/19/2012 | | after-tax incomes, car sales, employmeny, gasoline prices, GDP, job growth, Mixed economic data
Recent economic data are mixed. On one hand, the job market is doing well, bank lending is rising, and car sales are zooming. But, gasoline prices are up, real after-tax incomes are almost flat — causing consumer spending to grow a tiny inflation-adjusted 0.6% between 7/11 and 1/12 — and GDP growth is tepid. Either GDP numbers get adjusted upwards or start rising to catch up with employment growth, or new job numbers start to decline.