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Dwindling household savings temporarily insulate consumer spending from a cooling labor market.
Even as aggregate job growth slows, financially pressured households draw down their personal savings to historic lows to maintain elevated spending levels.
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The Economy
Claims 194K — Sixth Straight Week Below 200K, Near the Lowest Since 1969 — as the Low-Hire, Low-Fire Equilibrium Holds Through the Inflation Storm This shows consumers depleting their personal savings to historically low levels to support their spending as job growth drops.
The Economy
September Retail Sales: The +0.8% Beat Was the Gas Pump — Core Control Slows to +0.1% After August's +1.2% Surge, and Q4 Momentum Fades The retail surge forcing GDP upgrades is financed by savings drawdown and stock-market wealth rather than income.