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"Everything Is Awesome" American Consumers Are The Happiest In 11 Years

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The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index tells us that Americans are the happiest (have the highest sentiment) since 2004... Are you feeling happy, punk?

"everything is awesome"

 

You have to laugh really...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:14 | 5725012 slaughterer
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We are happy for our EBT!  And Obamaphone!  And two years free community college to study feminist basket weaving!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:16 | 5725038 LawsofPhysics
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Yes, all counting towards GDP thanks to "mark to model" (a.k.a. mark to fantasy).

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:21 | 5725065 JungleCat
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Indeed. Not having to work does tend to improve one's sentiment.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:29 | 5725115 LawsofPhysics
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Precisely why the supply lines for essential commodities will break.  Delivering real products actually requires real work.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:38 | 5725155 SMG
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Wait, you guys are saying "Everything is NOT Awesome"!?!?!?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:47 | 5725237 MonetaryApostate
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It's tax season, duh....

 

I love the sarcasm though... (If that is indeed what it is)

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:52 | 5725285 SWRichmond
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..."the old cynicism is gone"...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:01 | 5725371 Pool Shark
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"Everything Is Awesome" American Consumers Are The Happiest In 11 Years

 

47% of Americans get free sh*t from the government.

Of course they're happy.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:23 | 5725549 Eyeroller
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And when it becomes 51% America is screwed.

The Free Sh*t Party will win every election from there on out.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:34 | 5725629 Bad Attitude
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The KoolAid is awesome!

Forward (over the cliff)!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:13 | 5725884 Save_America1st
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I'm happy stackin' more cheap phyzz.  Thanks for dip yesterday, bitchez! :-)

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:13 | 5726208 The9thDoctor
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Americans are the happiest (have the highest sentiment) since 2004

Since 2004.  Oh yeah, gas was below $2 a gallon back then too.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:28 | 5725588 The Blank Stare
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Must have asked a bunch of brain dead facebookers after they watched a video of some skinny black dude dancing around in the streets just reapeting the same word over and over again.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:31 | 5725609 maskone909
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they wont be happy once they realize they have to pay the IRS if they didnt buy healthcare insurance

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:02 | 5725383 I am more equal...
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It is the stupidity gap.  Proving yet again, you can fool some people all the time and most of the people sometime. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:55 | 5725299 Lumberjack
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Nah, they use robots and drones now. Long Stupidity (SDY).

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:31 | 5725129 Abitdodgie
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101 million not working 47 million on free shit and the rest of the world working for us or else we will bomb them , the American dream is truly here , thank's Obamer for sending all the job's to our slaves in other country's Now if we can just get those pesky Russian's in order they may take the last 100 million job's from us and so none of us have to work , USA, USA.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:54 | 5725280 MonetaryApostate
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You better go back to the speech about the "Sucking sound out of the south & all our jobs going to China", which was Ross Perot's warning to us all during his presidential run (You should notice that he was forced to leave the race (That he was winning!) because they attacked his family, because he was wanting to change what these crooks were doing to us all, and end lobbying, which they just couldn't have, no way!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:01 | 5726454 FreeMoney
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It strikes me that the hollowing out of our blue collar middle class has come from:

1.  Taxing income instead of imports ( why do we punish income? )

2.  Allowing free trade ( why do we allow trade with our emenys? )

3.  Devaluing the currency ( incentive to spend now and borrow )

4.  Failing to secure our borders

5.  Over regulating

6.  Misleading Economic information

7.  Free stuff to the low income / low information masses

8.  Politics of envy

9.  The complete failure of the media to investigate and report

10.  The transformation of eductors into indoctrinators.

 

Perot was right.  The tree of liberty needs to get watered again.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 21:13 | 5733142 MonetaryApostate
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Yes, Perot was correct on quite a few issues indeed, but nobody listened to him it seems.  :/

(You can't motivate sluggards!  America won't act until it's too late unfortunately.)

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:37 | 5725161 Postal
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Basket weaving would actually be a good prepper skill to have. And a couple of cute co-eds that could be rented out would be useful, too.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:37 | 5725163 dirtyfiles
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what a shame fcken tools

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:42 | 5725209 j0nx
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Ok...on one side of ZH we have "U.S. Retail Sector Begins Massive Collapse". On the other we have "Everything Is Awesome" American Consumers Are The Happiest In 11 Years".

 

So which is it? I'm confused.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:21 | 5725537 Doubleguns
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Confidence = gas price. That's as simple as I can explain it. Other than pointing out that the sheeple are so f#$king stuipid but that is a constant.....therefore it must be the gas price. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:06 | 5726177 Shaznardickleze...
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16% spike due to legal recreational marijuana.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:05 | 5725396 starman
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And the "shadow of the crises have past"! Phew.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:14 | 5725017 DIgnified
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That second chart is an easy fix.  Just change the criteria for employment again. Make breathing "employment."

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:19 | 5725026 NoDebt
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The magical effect of cheap gas.  An effect that is especially helpful when you're living on a a fixed EBT/Welfare/SNAP income, as so many are these days.

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:33 | 5725119 Dr. Engali
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Yep, and cheap gas pulled dear leader's poll numbers back up above 50%.  As long as gas is cheap and I can park  a $50,000 truck in front of my $10,000 trailer , and  have a 70" flat screen teevee for the big game we don't care what he does.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:39 | 5725171 Postal
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$50,000 truck in front of my $10,000 trailer

You have no idea... I lived in our RV for a while ($10,000 value) while on a job. Of course, it was pulled by Mrs. Postal's $50,000 truck.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:56 | 5725312 MonetaryApostate
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Those government tax checks probably have nothing to do with anything...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:15 | 5725900 mtl4
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Just need to make it past the next election, after that it's bottom's up!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:17 | 5725031 Arius
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at 3:01 ... we are awesome

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMVtZQOxb4

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:17 | 5725032 29.5 hours
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On the other hand...

Under a mattress, in the freezer: Why so many are hiding cash

 

"The survey also found that about 1 in 4 consumers anticipates a financial emergency this year, and hiding cash at home could be one way people are preparing."

 

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:32 | 5725137 Osmium
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When they say cash, I'm sure they mean fiat.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:48 | 5725258 Cripkuwy
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It's actually funny when you think about it. Hiding cash is like collecting the leaves of a dying tree instead of the firewood.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:17 | 5725036 Glass Seagull
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Zoloft

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:16 | 5725039 Quirkel
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A useless number...Has been for a long time

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:29 | 5725092 Dr. Richard Head
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While agree the UMICH number is worthless, contrived bullshit, I do realize that the masses are indeed in high spirits due to sub-$2.00 gas, a slightly rebounding housing market, lots o' sports distractions, a shit ton of credit card and auto loan debt available, and more craft beer from around the world available to anyone anywhere these days.  These, in my opinion, are the drugs that keep the serfs a serf.  There is a mass delusion going on and we who spoke of the coming crash have been labeled OCD, fear mongering, ecopornical, nuts.  I wonder if and when the day of reckoning will come and us tin-foilers will be vindicated.  It seems as if the same song keeps playing and everyone keeps fucking dancing regardless of true macroeconomic indicators.  

To be sane in this fucked up world is to be blissfully unaware, un-engaged, and unprepared. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:52 | 5725272 Mike Honcho
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Agreed Doc.  The majority knows about monetary policy, markets, and the health of the economy as much as they did in 2007.  No clue.  I work in a room with 7 others, never a conversation I care to interject into.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:18 | 5725043 the not so migh...
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what poeple will say when a nail gun is pointed at their familes head

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:18 | 5725044 dimwitted economist
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i think i'll go to the dollar tree today and Splurge!!!! 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:18 | 5725045 screw face
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bullish....put that on my tab.

..........why work when our government and bankers rape and pillage for ya!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:22 | 5725054 Everybodys All ...
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lol. Do they interview the White House for this number?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:20 | 5725059 Bossman1967
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Im doing cartwheels and shooting popcorn out off my ass yippie

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:23 | 5725071 Fun Facts
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suggest looking into who funds the Umich survey

hint: bankster owned donkey propaganda tool

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:26 | 5725075 blown income
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Isn't Michigan in like piles of snow and freezing temps.....where the fuck are people circle jerking

 

Temp is currently 17

 

University of Michigan, 500 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI Friday 10:00 AM Mostly Cloudy
https://www.google.com/search?q=university+of+michigan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8...
Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:22 | 5725080 City_Of_Champyinz
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Comical and sad...Only a matter of time until the fan starts spraying the shit all over everyone, then things will really get interesting.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:26 | 5725575 Eyeroller
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Been hearing that for 6 years.  Absolutely unbelievable how the Fed is still able to keep the plates spinning...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:24 | 5725084 Jameson18
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Do you think this guy has any input in this fake information.

Mark S. Schlissel is Jewish. Born November 24, 1957, Schlissel is the president-elect of the University of Michigan. Schlissel will become U-M's 14th president on July 1, 2014, following the retirement of Mary Sue Coleman. His contract with the University of Michigan lasts five years, and his base salary is $750,000. Schlissel is married to Monica Schwebs, an environmental and energy lawyer, and has four adult children.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:15 | 5725496 Colonel Klink
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Unpossible another cheesepope in position to lie about something that could matter.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:24 | 5725093 gcjohns1971
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Does U Mich Conduct these surveys at the local bars on the day after finals?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:48 | 5725245 Mike Honcho
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You were confident after finals!?  Maybe when I took Jogging as an elective.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:19 | 5725534 gcjohns1971
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No.

HAPPY.

Of course, this was over 20 years ago,  and I was paying my own tuition.

If Obama-Claus was paying my tuition maybe I would have been more happy failing classes so that I could take them again.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:00 | 5725364 a common man
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Polls were conducted at the local Mercedes-Benz dealer show room.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:24 | 5725095 Callz d Ballz
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No shit, it's Stuper-Bowl weekend.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:10 | 5725858 Fun Facts
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"No shit, it's Stuper-Bowl weekend."

dooferbowl for the drooling zombie fan culture

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:27 | 5725099 Batman11
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The statistics can be accurate, it is how you work out that statistic that is important.

This consumer confidence survey was taken on Rodeo Drive.

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:36 | 5725169 Boondocker
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Lots of sheeple

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:43 | 5725200 UserZero
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The proles can be trained to bellyfeel pretty much anything.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:45 | 5725229 fuu
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Do they still only survey land lines or did they finally get into surveying cell phone users?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:49 | 5725268 Martian Moon
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What's a land line?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:16 | 5725506 fuu
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It's a way to escape agents.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:19 | 5725520 buzzy_the_pirate_dog
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That is the thing in the fields that keeps the cows from crossing the road

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:52 | 5725286 earnulf
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So basically, since 2008, the "sentiment" has uncouped from employment "reality".   Well hey, at least we know when the stats went full retard!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:58 | 5725341 asscannon101
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Not surprised at the euphoria. Most people are clueless idiots.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:35 | 5725648 yogibear
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Willing to charge it until bankrupt.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:05 | 5725344 hotrod
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Well Fellow ZHr's maybe it is just us.  We are the negative trolls that would not recognize utopia if it hit us in the face.  All I can say is  RAISE THE RATES AND make sure the Fed Govt keeps those  student loans funded for the Universities(incl Mich), so they can suck every last dime out of these kids.

Was there ever a College/University recession? Kind of like the Insurance industry.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:09 | 5725444 hotrod
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Univ Mich survey like the S&P rating agency,  Best to, Tow the Line.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:23 | 5725551 gcjohns1971
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"Under a mattress, in the freezer: Why so many are hiding cash"

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102377632

 

Best quote:

"The survey also found that about 1 in 4 consumers anticipates a financial emergency this year, and hiding cash at home could be one way people are preparing."

 

So...either these surveys describe mutually exclusive realities, with one being a fabrication... or they are saying that 1/4 of people expect a financial emergency - and are HAPPY about it????

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:31 | 5725617 Elliptico
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Plugged in, tuned out, and loving it!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:34 | 5725642 yogibear
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LOL, resturants are boosting prices for ever decreasing portions.

Wall Street demands their earnings boost.

People will go in hock to eat out.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:42 | 5725675 basho
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of course they're happy 

30% on foodstamps

gas is cheap.

auto loans are cheap.

home loans are cheap.

drugs are cheap & legal.

what's to be unhappy about.

sheep to the slaughter

tic toc

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:45 | 5725695 kw2012
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Unfortunately the UNHAPPY people couldn't answer their phones because they were busy working. 

 

The HAPPY people are chatting on the ObamaPhone with their friends about going to see their ObamaCare doctor after they finish watching their favorite show streaming on their subsidized internet connection in their Subsidized Section 8 housing with their subsidized utility bills while the government watches their kids for free in after school programs for disadvantaged youths while they scarf down some crab legs bought with their food stamps and extra money because their kids have been classified as disabled with ADHD 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:49 | 5726081 jughead
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Proving once again that we ARE the Idiocracy.  Good day.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:22 | 5726258 redc1c4
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who the hell are they surveying?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 19:35 | 5727477 gregga777
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More LIES courtesy of the least transparent administration ever.

LPOTUS—Lying-most President Of The United States—publicly performs the role of Administration figurehead, never accepting responsibility for frequent disasters. It's his Department heads acting without adult supervision who are always at fault. LPOTUS' Administration has set new lows for Unconstitutional actions and inactions including violations of almost every Bill of Right, excepting he has yet to billet troops in our homes. Give him time; he has two full years to go.

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