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"Everything Is Awesome" American Consumers Are The Happiest In 11 Years
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...
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We are happy for our EBT! And Obamaphone! And two years free community college to study feminist basket weaving!
Yes, all counting towards GDP thanks to "mark to model" (a.k.a. mark to fantasy).
Indeed. Not having to work does tend to improve one's sentiment.
Precisely why the supply lines for essential commodities will break. Delivering real products actually requires real work.
Wait, you guys are saying "Everything is NOT Awesome"!?!?!?
It's tax season, duh....
I love the sarcasm though... (If that is indeed what it is)
..."the old cynicism is gone"...
"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.
And when it becomes 51% America is screwed.
The Free Sh*t Party will win every election from there on out.
The KoolAid is awesome!
Forward (over the cliff)!
I'm happy stackin' more cheap phyzz. Thanks for dip yesterday, bitchez! :-)
Since 2004. Oh yeah, gas was below $2 a gallon back then too.
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.
they wont be happy once they realize they have to pay the IRS if they didnt buy healthcare insurance
It is the stupidity gap. Proving yet again, you can fool some people all the time and most of the people sometime.
Nah, they use robots and drones now. Long Stupidity (SDY).
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
what a shame fcken tools
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.
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.
16% spike due to legal recreational marijuana.
And the "shadow of the crises have past"! Phew.
That second chart is an easy fix. Just change the criteria for employment again. Make breathing "employment."
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.
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.
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.
Those government tax checks probably have nothing to do with anything...
Just need to make it past the next election, after that it's bottom's up!
at 3:01 ... we are awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMVtZQOxb4
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."
When they say cash, I'm sure they mean fiat.
It's actually funny when you think about it. Hiding cash is like collecting the leaves of a dying tree instead of the firewood.
Zoloft
A useless number...Has been for a long time
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.
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.
what poeple will say when a nail gun is pointed at their familes head
i think i'll go to the dollar tree today and Splurge!!!!
bullish....put that on my tab.
..........why work when our government and bankers rape and pillage for ya!
lol. Do they interview the White House for this number?
Im doing cartwheels and shooting popcorn out off my ass yippie
suggest looking into who funds the Umich survey
hint: bankster owned donkey propaganda tool
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 Cloudyhttps://www.google.com/search?q=university+of+michigan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8...
Comical and sad...Only a matter of time until the fan starts spraying the shit all over everyone, then things will really get interesting.
Been hearing that for 6 years. Absolutely unbelievable how the Fed is still able to keep the plates spinning...
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.
Unpossible another cheesepope in position to lie about something that could matter.
Does U Mich Conduct these surveys at the local bars on the day after finals?
You were confident after finals!? Maybe when I took Jogging as an elective.
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.
Polls were conducted at the local Mercedes-Benz dealer show room.
No shit, it's Stuper-Bowl weekend.
"No shit, it's Stuper-Bowl weekend."
dooferbowl for the drooling zombie fan culture
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.
Lots of sheeple
The proles can be trained to bellyfeel pretty much anything.
Do they still only survey land lines or did they finally get into surveying cell phone users?
What's a land line?
It's a way to escape agents.
That is the thing in the fields that keeps the cows from crossing the road
So basically, since 2008, the "sentiment" has uncouped from employment "reality". Well hey, at least we know when the stats went full retard!
Not surprised at the euphoria. Most people are clueless idiots.
Willing to charge it until bankrupt.
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.
Univ Mich survey like the S&P rating agency, Best to, Tow the Line.
"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????
Plugged in, tuned out, and loving it!
LOL, resturants are boosting prices for ever decreasing portions.
Wall Street demands their earnings boost.
People will go in hock to eat out.
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
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
Proving once again that we ARE the Idiocracy. Good day.
who the hell are they surveying?
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.