The U.S. consumer's durability as a prop for the economy may be tested in coming weeks as family budgets, particularly among ...

As kids prepare to head back to school, experts say parents shopping for backpacks, pencils and other supplies haven’t yet experienced the full extent of the tariff-related sticker shock expected to ...

Americans will spend over $12 billion this October on costumes, candy, and haunted thrills-making Halloween one of the nation's... The post The Haunted Economy of Halloween: Why We Spend Billions to ...

Read about the 3 critical challenges facing U.S. consumers. Investors must consider whether the market's strength can persist ...

Americans are souring on the economy again to levels seen rarely in the post-World War II era, raising the question of what it means for spending, economic growth and other key metrics gauging the ...

The impact of millennials having fewer kids will probably be worse than the impact of aging boomers, an economist told ...

Consumer sentiment soured in October as a government shutdown threatens to weaken a wobbly economy beset by an uptick in inflation and a sharp slowdown of hiring, fresh data on Friday showed. The ...

Surveys of Consumers Director Joanne Hsu: “Consumer sentiment moved sideways this month.” At 55 index points, sentiment is virtually unchanged from September. Weakness in expectations for future ...

Consumer sentiment soured in September, and inflation expectations ticked up again, worrying signs for the economy. Consumer sentiment fell to 55.4, down from 58.2 in August and below economists’ ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joanne Hsu, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The ongoing federal shutdown has ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misspelled Jeremy Horpedahl's name. America’s middle class is spooked about the economy. Consumer confidence has been falling for most of ...