Daniel Ackerman
speaker
269 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Daniel Ackerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's moving.
So people are spending less on the building products.
When they spend less on that, we know that they're spending less as well on the services for remodeling.
Lean on your higher income clients.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
Randy Kroszner at the University of Chicago says today's report suggests that resilience has continued, at least through February.
Vehicle sales, for one, rose in February, but the uptick in spending was largely a product of higher prices, not household financial strength, says Tuan Nguyen, an economist with RSM.
The short story is consumers are starting to feel the squeeze.
Personal savings were down in February as disposable income fell, though Nguyen says that could be a blip.
Some of that was just the weather.
February was cold and stormy for the East Coast, which may have hurt hiring.
Nguyen says there could be a bounce back in March.
And speaking of the labor market...
Sean Snaith at the University of Central Florida says that's a key indicator.
But even if consumers are able to keep their jobs, those paychecks may not go as far in the months ahead.
Nancy Vandenhouten with Oxford Economics reminds us that today's PCE report covers the month just before the war in Iran.
She says those price increases will pop up in the March Consumer Price Index, which comes out tomorrow morning.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
After each one, people are starting to think maybe this is just normal.
This is how it is.
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