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发表于 2010-5-28 08:37 AM
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Yes I am learning here, including learning from you. :)
I remember seeing some charts showed the weights of different components in consumer spending and it changed a lot in the last 50 year, but I couldn't find it now.
Here is a quote from someone else:
"The lesson here is that relatively strong retail sales numbers do not guarantee robust consumption," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, noting that retail sales account for only two-fifths of spending.
I am not allowed to post a link here. Please look for the article today from AP titled "Consumer spending posts weak April reading".
My point is not really whether the 40% is correct. I put a question mark after 40% in my post, which I really was not sure about this number. But I'm pretty sure that retail is just a portion of spending. |
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