{"id":6147,"date":"2009-11-27T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2016-09-20T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:30:44","slug":"durables-and-spending-stuck-and-rolling-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/durables-and-spending-stuck-and-rolling-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Durables and Spending: Stuck and Rolling Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, personal spending, on a year-over-year basis, has been improving. Perhaps this is the stabilization that we have been hearing about. But, behind the headline numbers is <!--more-->the reality that we are looking at <strong>no change<\/strong> during the past year. Comparisons are getting easier and we need to see growth in order to waive the victory flags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spending-20091125-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6149\" title=\"Spending 20091125\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spending-20091125-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spending 20091125\" width=\"594\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230; Durables have begun to roll over on a monthly basis again. Holiday shopping along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-appliances-really\/\">Cash-for-Appliances<\/a> should provide a boost when that program actually goes into effect. Otherwise, it does not look good for durables moving ahead, especially given that most unemployed are not looking to make &#8220;big&#8221; purchases anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Durables-20091125-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6148 aligncenter\" title=\"Durables 20091125\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Durables-20091125-1.jpg\" alt=\"Durables 20091125\" width=\"572\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, personal spending, on a year-over-year basis, has been improving. Perhaps this is the stabilization that we have been hearing about. But, behind the headline numbers is<\/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-6147","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\/6147","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=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}