Are consumers spending less because many of them have lost money, at least on paper?

Consumer spending increased 0.2 percent, the least in a year.

Consumer spending for the year rose 1.8 percent, half the growth rate of 1986.

In recent years, annual consumer spending has been growing by about 18 percent.

"The real test is what will happen to consumer spending" in the next month or two, he added.

That does little or nothing to fuel current consumer spending.

This will slow consumer spending and the economy in general.

Consumer spending might, in the end, be the key factor.

As a result, consumer spending may hold up better than some economists had thought.

Consumer spending today amounts to 70 percent of the American economy.

You can see this change in the national statistics on consumer spending.

And that, he said, could have a modest effect on consumer spending.

The report said 1987 growth was pushed by high consumer spending.

Consumer spending has indeed held up beyond most everyone's expectations.

The problem is that if consumer spending falls then so does growth.

By contrast, consumer spending in general is less likely to create as many good jobs.

Consumer spending began to rise, slowly at first, in the summer of 1992.

But all workers get paid, and the changes in their pay help determine consumer spending.

That development could have an effect on the economy because consumer spending is the major component.

It was the first look at consumer spending in the final quarter of the year.

My guess is that growth in consumer spending will be down to the 2 to 3 percent range.

It was a sign that strong consumer spending continued to power the American economy.

No wonder that consumer spending has been so much greater than anyone had expected.

Consumers spending are what starts growth and there will be another 750,000 out of work by next year.

At first, the most traumatic impact may be on consumer spending.

Its spending rose considerably faster than consumer outlays.

"Wealth by itself now appears to explain about one-fifth of the total level of consumer outlays," the chairman said.

Rising housing sales produce all kinds of other consumer outlays from new wall telephones to wall-to-wall carpeting.

At the same time, all categories of domestic spending, including consumer outlays, were somewhat weaker in the summer than in the first half of the year.

Housing costs, which account for nearly 40 percent of consumer outlays, rose just one-tenth of a percent in July, half the June rate.

He referred specifically to a 4.3 percent rate of growth in consumer outlays in the fourth quarter, after a hefty 3.7 percent gain during the summer.

But while expressing confidence that the economy will avoid a recession, he nonetheless scaled back his estimates of future consumer outlays because of the weak job market.

You base your analysis of gas tax equity on the statement that consumer outlays on gasoline make up the same fraction of income, regardless of the income level.

Personal consumption expenditures, the government's calculation of total consumer outlays, rose in each of the last three quarters, particularly in the most recent, in disregard of the recession.

Consumer outlays are likely to erode next year, however, as the enthusiasm from falling gasoline prices wears off and borrowing against one's home becomes more difficult, Mr. Curtin says.

Spending on food, in fact, climbed 9.3 percent - representing about one-quarter of the rise in consumer outlays - as many households stocked up, fearing Year 2000 computer problems that proved largely unfounded.

Earlier this week the Commerce Department reported that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, with business and consumer outlays rebounding sharply from the pace of last fall.

Boost for Economy Including consumer outlays for hotels, car rentals, attractions and restaurants, Mr. Friese estimated, the fare sale will bring an additional $15 billion into the nation's economy.

For every dollar of stock market gain, consumer outlays are lifted by 3 to 4 cents, Mr. Greenspan said, while higher home prices yield 5 cents for each dollar of gain.

Based on historical patterns in the stock market and consumer spending, Mr. Wyss estimated that consumer outlays will fall by $3 billion to $5 billion for every $100 billion decline in the value of outstanding corporate stocks.

Stock market gains permanently lift the level of consumer outlays by 3 percent to 4 percent of the value of the gain, while the permanent increase in spending that results from gains in housing wealth appears to be about 5 percent, Mr. Greenspan said.

Further Easing in Rates Seen "The broad-based slowing in business spending and consumer outlays, together with the deterioration in direct measures of the labor market, points to further easing in the funds rate to at least 6.75 percent soon after Friday's report," he said.

Borrowings against increased home values "influence consumer outlays beyond the effects of gains from financial assets," Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in a speech Friday, adding that run-ups in the prices of homes are at least partly related to increases in stock prices.

Medical costs and clothing were among the consumer expenses that rose last month, while food and energy prices fell.

The All Items index encompasses 12 categories of consumer expenses:

One is for homeowners who need money for a car, tuition payments or other consumer expenses to borrow against the equity in their houses rather than take out an ordinary bank loan.

The standard policies offer a variety of extra coverage for consumer expenses like home health care, prescription drugs, preventive care like cancer screening and flu shots, and emergency care for Medicare beneficiaries traveling in a foreign country.

This, of course, will lead to a reduction in consumer expenditure on fuel.

The same trends are evident in terms of consumer expenditure.

The price index for consumer expenditures rose the same amount as in January, 0.3 percent.

Per capita income has been growing substantially in recent years, as have consumer expenditures.

The latter are taken from a variety of sources, including tax data and surveys on consumer expenditure.

Consumer expenditures on goods and services rose at an annual rate of 2.6 percent, up slightly from the second quarter.

That's what I've been concerned about, and I thought it could eventually have an impact on consumer expenditures.

Overall consumer expenditures for drugs have increased at two to three times the rate of other health-related items.

This growth is linked to increased consumer expenditure on recreation and entertainment activities.

It is therefore a tax on consumer expenditure.

Per capita consumer expenditure as a consequence had reached early 1960s levels at the end of 1982.

As a proportion of national consumer expenditure, advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990, so they competed for a growing purse.

"The Times has the stature to do that, but it is a risky proposition in a slowing environment for consumer expenditures and advertising."

Since 1995, consumer expenditures have increased 4.4 percent annually, much faster than the 3.3 percent increase in disposable personal income.

Retail sales, a big chunk of overall consumer expenditures, fell for the third straight month in May, and seem unlikely to revive soon.

The growth in consumer expenditures did not rise commensurately with the boom in retail space.

European Marketing Data and Statistics will provide details of consumer expenditure.

Does the Consumer Expenditure Survey include information on assets and liabilities?

Are historical data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey available?

Fads are to the diet book publishing industry what fashion is to the rag trade: a means to promote consumer expenditure.

To date it has sold 1,259,163 copies in the US, worth $20,938,103 of consumer expenditure.

But for the year, she is forecasting a 6 percent increase in consumer expenditures, only slightly less than the 6.2 percent rise in 1986.

The research concentrates on consumer expenditure and in this context includes both theoretical and empirical elements.

Firms provide consumers with goods and services in exchange for consumer expenditure and "factors of production" from households.

This consumer expenditure was an important factor in increasing government's tax revenue for its ambitious capital expenditure plans.

First is personal consumption expenditures, the kinds of things that people buy every day for themselves.

The rate of growth in personal consumption expenditures on things other than energy and food has slipped, but not by a lot.

To see this consider again the consumption expenditure model we have been discussing.

It is primarily a consumption expenditure, and that remains the case.

Consumption expenditures make up 65 per cent of our gross national product.

The same figure is recorded under household final consumption expenditures."

Another chart shows a similar pattern in personal consumption expenditures, which grew at an annual rate of 3.6 percent.

Personal income rose 0.4 percent in November, and consumption expenditures increased 0.3 percent.

Private final consumption expenditure per capita increased by more than 80% over the last decade.

Again household sector spends this income to fulfill its wants in the form of consumption expenditure.

Upon retirement, consumption expenditure may begin to decline however income usually declines dramatically.

He bases this conclusion on the cyclical stability of personal consumption expenditures (less food).

Personal consumption expenditures grew at an annual rate of 3.6 percent, suggesting renewed confidence among households.

Thus, consumption expenditure is low, and savings are either very low or completely absent.

But personal consumption expenditure - the spending of American consumers - rose at a very strong annual rate of 6.1 percent.

Essentially overlooked was a report showing that personal income and consumption expenditures fell sharply in January.

The Federal Reserve watches the inflation rate based on personal consumption expenditures very closely.

A. We don't see much, if any, correlation between change in the federal funds rate and changes in real personal consumption expenditure.

Most analysts expect that the numbers will show upward revisions in personal consumption expenditures and net exports.

On the contrary, when income falls, consumption expenditure does not decline in the same proportion and never becomes zero.

This distrust in future income reduced consumption expenditure.

The core personal consumption expenditures deflator is estimated to have risen 0.2 percent in the month.

Nearly nine-tenths of the economic expansion in the third quarter was accounted for by growth in personal consumption expenditures.

It also showed that personal consumption expenditures - used by the Fed as an inflation gauge - rose at their slowest rate since mid-2003.

Substituting this expression for into the consumption expenditure equation (3.6) we obtain: