{"id":11352,"date":"2010-11-01T13:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:02:25","slug":"hmmm-is-the-incomespending-downturn-a-bump-or-a-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/hmmm-is-the-incomespending-downturn-a-bump-or-a-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm&#8230; Is The Income\/Spending Downturn A Bump or a Crater?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in  the day, the income and spending report was released. For the most part,  on a long-term basis it is looking better, but we have to question the  most recent month-over-month down tick. Is it a sign that the deflation  spiral is starting to effect income? Or is this just a bump in the road?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/incspendmom-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11353 aligncenter\" title=\"incspendmom\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/incspendmom-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/incspend-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11354 aligncenter\" title=\"incspend\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/incspend-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We know that the latest GDP report was propped up by the consumer spending component. making up over 70% of the GDP, we need to take notice of what the trend is showing. Already there is a surge in the inventory to sales ratio that tells us that while manufacturing may be forging ahead, sales may be slowing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/isales-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11355\" title=\"isales\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/isales-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the day, the income and spending report was released. For the most part, on a long-term basis it is looking better, but we have to question the most recent month-over-month down tick. Is it a sign that the deflation spiral is starting to effect income? Or is this just a bump in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,483],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}