{"id":16408,"date":"2011-11-11T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=16408"},"modified":"2016-09-20T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:16:37","slug":"consumer-confidence-higher-still-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/consumer-confidence-higher-still-concerning\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Confidence &#8211; Higher, Still Concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, both of the more important measures of consumer confidence has been steadily dropping. Somehow, there was a nice pickup in the most recent report.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Simple&#8230;The Stock market was up over the previous month. Since there <!--more-->have been no other important shifts in employment or global economic trends, that seems to be the only reason for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Bernanke and Gang know this well and will continue to do what they can to inspire the wealth effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/confidence-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16415\" title=\"confidence\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/confidence-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/umich11112011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16416\" title=\"umich11112011\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/umich11112011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/umich11112011b-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16417\" title=\"umich11112011b\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/umich11112011b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, both of the more important measures of consumer confidence has been steadily dropping. Somehow, there was a nice pickup in the most recent report. Why? Simple&#8230;The Stock market was up over the previous month. Since there<\/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-16408","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\/16408","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=16408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}