Gasoline Prices Threaten U.S. Consumer Optimism: Chart of Day
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U.S. consumers are likely to take a dimmer view of the economy’s prospects as gasoline gets more expensive, according to James Hamilton, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.
“The correlation between consumer sentiment and gasoline prices is reasonably strong,” Hamilton wrote two days ago in a posting on his Econbrowser blog.