Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) prices increased by only 1.25% during the 12 months ending January 2011.
In the fourth quarter 2009 GDP, business spending trumped personal consumption by almost seven to one.
The personal consumption expenditures index rose to 1.5%, short of the Street's 1.7% outlook.
Meantime, the latest U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation rate was 0.9 per cent, annualized.
The Personal Consumption Expenditure price index rose 0.5% in June, again due to higher gas prices.
Nobody believes unemployment comes down next year so why should personal consumption expenditures rise above 1 percent?
Personal consumption grew a puny 1.3% in Q2, and housing construction, as you might have guessed, sank 7.5%.
Personal consumption expenditures declined 2% and I remember one quarter when they dropped almost 7%, an unprecedented statistic.
Personal consumption expenditures increased 1.0% in the first quarter, down from the 2.3% increase in the fourth quarter.
From mid-1994 to mid-1995, gross domestic product grew by a healthy 4.4% and personal consumption rose by 4%.
The continued recovery in the world's biggest economy was founded on strong personal consumption, the Commerce Department said.
Personal consumption expenditures advanced at a 1.4% annual rate, but gross private sector investment increased by only .07%.
Same goes for personal consumption expenditures despite the resolution of household net worth.
At the same time, a pickup in personal consumption does feed business sentiment and could lead to increased activity.
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In the most recently reported calendar quarter, personal consumption is only up about 3.3 percent from the pre-crisis peak.
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Personal consumption rose by 3.6% between January and March, compared with an increase of 1.4% in the previous quarter.
If taken with persistent weakness in consumer confidence, still below the level historically associated with sustained increases in personal consumption.
The man claimed the tens of thousands of caterpillars were to be used as food and were for personal consumption.
Real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.0 percent in the third quarter, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent in the second.
The government said the main drivers for the fall were personal consumption expenditures, which fell 3.1%, the sharpest drop in 28 years.
Personal consumption spending increased 1.4 percent in the third quarter, about the same as the 1.5 percent increase in the second quarter.
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Real personal consumption, reported by the Commerce Department, grew at an annualized rate of 3.2% in the first quarter of 2002.
Personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2%, above the 1.6% rise a quarter earlier.
"Personal consumption remains broadly flat as income is sluggish, " the report said.
Personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2%, compared with 1.6% in the third quarter.
Personal consumption expenditures rose 1.5%, down from the 2.2% a quarter earlier.
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And although the extra wealth might be used for personal consumption, it could also, if Canadians preferred, be used to increase social spending.
All other, and arguably more important, indicators (Production and Income, Employment, Unemployment and Hours, and Personal Consumption and Spending) registered very negative readings.
According to the Commerce Department data, personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2% in the first quarter, after declining 4.3% at the end of 2008.
To achieve this, they curtailed personal consumption and drove remarkable behavior change to free up financial and other resources for the war effort.
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