Students protest, sometimes alongside trade unions, against the consumer society.

I started working in the industry, but I wasn't really happy to contribute to a material consumer society in a linear, extracting and manufacturing mode.

(d) Consumer Lending (CLP)

Consumer fraud

I started working in the industry, but I wasn't really happy to contribute to a material consumer society in a linear, extracting and manufacturing mode.

Or do you have some insight about the market or consumer behavior?

Real personal consumer spending grew at a robust 4.4 rate, as spending on consumer durables soared by 21 .

That key point appears all but lost on the consumer recovery crowd.

So, food, of course, is probably the consumption act that is most closely linked to our survival.

Li s analysis points to the related ascendance of senior officials trained in law and the social sciences providing a skill set that is more closely aligned with the vision of a consumer society.

Unhappy with the capitalist consumer society that was metastasizing all around them, West European and American students attacked the system from far left positions.

They include the value of consumptive uses, such as harvesting of food products and medicinal products, and the value of non consumptive uses, such as the enjoyment of recreational activities that do not require harvesting of products.

The past relationship between wealth and consumer spending implies that each 100 of additional wealth raises consumer spending by about four dollars, so 2.5 trillion of additional wealth would raise consumer spending by roughly 100 billion.

But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick start growth.

Unfortunately, the projected recovery in consumer spending didn t occur.

Recent data on consumer spending in the United States have been terrible.

Gains in inflation adjusted personal consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8 over the past five years the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post World War II era.

These reforms require the sacrifice of certain kinds of protections, as well as of income and consumption growth.

The key driver of the increase in final sales was a strong rise in consumer spending.

Higher domestic consumer spending would otherwise create inflationary pressures.

Consumption demand for luxury goods is unlikely to solve the problem.

If that decline continues, it will inevitably reduce the pace of consumer spending.

From a model applicable to the minority of the world s population, Western consumer society is becoming the dominant economic model of the world, one to which there is increasingly no alternative.

Making room for increased consumer spending requires reducing the level of exports by allowing the currency to appreciate.

To raise consumer spending, the Chinese government must reverse both of these trends.

The alternative an increase in interest rates would undermine both consumption and productive investment.

Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of upward movement.

Lower share prices will now have negative effects on consumer spending and business investment.

This steady flow of debt relief is allowing US consumer spending to recover slowly.

But what we have seen since 2007 is an overshooting of the contraction in consumer demand and domestic investment.

The magnitude of the relationship between the stock market rise and the jump in consumer spending also fits the data.

That figure matches closely the fall in household saving and the resulting increase in consumer spending.

Indeed, more recently, the credit restrictions that were implemented at the end of 2010 have been loosened in order to stimulate consumer demand.

They know about recycling now, but they don't really, I think, get sustainability in all the things, and the energy footprint, and how that matters.

The US Congress and the Bush administration enacted a 100 billion tax rebate in an attempt to stimulate consumer spending.

Their analysis found a clear tendency for austerity programs to reduce consumption expenditure and weaken the economy.

Investors fearing geopolitical catastrophe might cope to some degree by raising their consumption spending.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

The rise in consumer spending was not, however, due to higher employment or faster income growth.

Obama has emphasized the need for a green recovery, that is, one based on sustainable technologies, not merely on consumption spending.

It artificially props up consumption growth and allows the government to defer hard choices between taxes and military expenditures.

First, services growth is beginning to tap a new source of labor income generation, the mainstay of consumer demand.

A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending.

A major obstacle to higher consumer spending is the current condition of the housing market.

One of the first concepts to which an economics student is exposed in a basic macro course is pent up consumer demand.