Economic Pessimism l Vehicle Sales l Men Buy Jewelry

Economic pessimism among US consumers continues, according to a September 2011 Harris Poll. Forty-five percent think the economy will stay the same, 34% believe it will get worse and 21% think it will get better in the coming year. Breaking down economic conditions to a regional level, just one in ten Americans rate the economic condition of their region of the country as good (12%), 22% say it is neither good nor bad and two-thirds (65%) say it is bad.
(more…)