Mission releverage accomplished. Personal Income rose 0.3% in August (very slightly below Bloomberg’s median estimate), the 2nd slowest growth of the year. Personal spending however jumped 0.5%, beating the 0.4% expectations, and its equal best growth since March. What was spending focused on? Why autosales, which accounted for about half of the spending. And what funded this spending? Why subprime car loans of course; it sure wasn’t the real disposable income per capita which was a paltry $37,684 in August.
This is how the income and spending looked like:
2nd miss in a row and 2nd lowest growth in income this year.
But spending jumped (thank you Subprime bubble 2.0)
Finally, following several revisions and even more months of constant increases in the US savings rate, August finally saw a drop, from 5.6% to 5.4%, just as Goldman hinted to the Department of Commerce should happen late last week.
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