US Government "Finds" Americans Had $70 Billion More In Disposable Income
Just one week after the US Department of Commerce quietly slashed historical US capex spending by billions of dollars following a major data revision...
... it was time for another major revision to a series that is nearer and dearer to most Americans' hearts, namely Disposable Personal Income.
As we noted earlier, today's Personal Income and Spending report revealed that personal spending in April surged by 1%, or the most since August 2009 driven in part by a major jump on energy goods and services.