{"id":33816,"date":"2012-08-01T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mcclatchy_uncertain_consumers_leave_economy_stuck_in_neutral\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T03:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T03:40:53","slug":"mcclatchy_uncertain_consumers_leave_economy_stuck_in_neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33816","title":{"rendered":"(McClatchy) Uncertain consumers leave economy stuck in neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans &#8211; whose purchases account for 70 percent of U.S. economic activity &#8211; are spending carefully, and they don&#8217;t expect to improve their income or job prospects any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going forward, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty,&#8221; said Joe Flannery, president of Weaver&#8217;s Inc., a 155-year-old department store in Lawrence, Kan.<\/p>\n<p>He, like other retailers, is watching for a ripple effect on general merchandise sales if food prices rise because of the drought later this year and into 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there is uncertainty about the second half of the year,&#8221; Flannery said. &#8220;I think there is some trepidation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/07\/30\/158736\/uncertain-consumers-leave-economy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans &#8211; whose purchases account for 70 percent of U.S. economic activity &#8211; are spending carefully, and they don&#8217;t expect to improve their income or job prospects any time soon. &#8220;Going forward, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33816\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,582,149,600,597,593,129,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}