The big uncertainty is how much, and when, weaker house prices affect consumer spending.
These factors affect consumer behavior outside work and create market trends that could lock out smaller operators.
So that part of the bump up in inflation might not affect consumer confidence and growth as much as other price rises.
Consumer debt can affect your ability to secure a mortgage, pass a credit check for a rental application, or get a job.
As Mr Bernanke remarked in a speech a few months ago, this suggests that changes in property prices should affect consumer spending by more than conventional wealth effects imply.
The thing to watch is whether this would start to affect consumer and business confidence in those markets, in which case, since emerging markets have been key to global growth, you're in a very different situation.
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Should this finding affect consumer behavior?
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In other words, it's the media (read: us), in Marko's opinion, that will affect consumer opinion by influencing enthusiasts (read: you) who will in turn evangelize Nokia's products throughout the US. MeeGo, not Symbian, is the product that will generate that degree of buzz and excitement.
"Card companies are figuring out how to replace old fees with new ones, " says Victor Stango, an associate economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a professor at the University of California, Davis, who has been analyzing how the Card Act will affect consumer banking.
Can you guess how laws like Dodd-Frank with its powerful consumer finance agency will affect your mortgage and your credit cards?
To have the agency under the leadership of someone with Mr. Curry's track record could significantly affect future banking and consumer regulations, he said.
When April sales results are posted, comparing the combined March and April sales this year to last will give a more accurate picture of where the consumer stands as it will neutralize the affect of Easter.
Media attention to violations, shareholder activism, consumer boycotts, and political action can all affect the corporate bottom-line.
The recommendation, in a report by the Education Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wouldn't affect the vast majority of student debt, which is issued by the federal government.
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If Obama's recess appointment of Cordray to the newly created consumer board is eventually ruled invalid, it could nullify all the regulations the consumer board has issued, many of which affect the mortgage business.
However consumer groups have warned that an increase in stamp prices could have a disproportionate affect on elderly people.
Higher prices at the pump, which affect predominantly lower and middle income households, could become a drag on the U.S. consumer, which makes up about 70% of GDP.
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