Partly because of war worries, consumer confidence in America dipped to its lowest level in nine-and-a-half years in February, according to preliminary results from the University of Michigan's index.
It emerged from the smoking ruins of World War II to dominate consumer electronics.
At the outset of that time, the United States redirected the massive industrial resources it had built up to win the biggest war in history into a consumer economy.
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Somehow in 1968 the economy was able to pay for a very expensive Cold War, a very expensive hot war and a fairly prosperous consumer econonmy with trading at a miniscule fraction of todays level.
This week we released our newest report, The Fight To Control The TV Becomes A Platform War, describing the 32 million consumer households in the US that watch online video on a TV set.
While the war is largely being waged on the consumer landscape with Samsung outpacing Apple in product introductions, Samsung is making bold moves in the enterprise space.
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Smith has an opportunity to learn from the impressive success of Medicaid reform under Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, in which Indiana was actually able to expand coverage by shifting the structure of Medicaid insurance from the traditional, World War II model to a modern, consumer-driven one.
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The anti-bubble argument, according to Ho, is that the reason for the war for talent is that demand for the consumer web is so large that there are simply not enough great people to build all the products needed to satisfy that demand.
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Many eco-nomists call it a tug-of-war between rising corporate profits and investment versus falling consumer incomes and spending - with the winner still in doubt.
The LDP, a pro-American, pro-business consequence of the cold war, was undermined by two decades in which consumer interests and non-profit groups slowly mounted a challenge to its paternalism.
One scenario has it that a short successful war in Iraq will unleash pent-up business and consumer demand in America and ensure rapid recovery that in turn will boost growth elsewhere in the world.
During the War, as productive output was diverted to the front, consumer goods were rationed back home and living standards fell.
The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
In America , war jitters and rising fuel costs contributed to a sharp decline in consumer confidence.
Consumer analysts watching the airline distribution tug-of-war worry that taking away options for price comparison makes shopping for low air fares more difficult.
In September, consumer-confidence surveys registered the biggest monthly falls since the Gulf war.
During the Gulf war, when the economy was also stuttering on the brink of recession, consumer spending in America fell for six months at an annual rate of 2.6%.
And former Labour defence secretary Lord Hutton - the man the government appointed to oversee a review of public sector pensions - said linking the military pension to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index, would mean war widows and the injured would get smaller payments in future.
Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
The country has reported its first trade deficit in four years, and consumer demand is sliding, while unemployment is at its highest level since the Second World War.
Nintendo and Sony are fighting the old war while the guerrilla attacks from mobile and social game companies steal a few seconds more of the consumer leisure time with each passing day.
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What your book illustrates so well is the difference between the kind of market that prevails in ordinary consumer goods such as automobiles, televisions or what-not and that prevailed in medicine until World War II, and the kind of market that now exists in the medical area.
But overall consumer spending by salaried workers shrank 1.8% last year, only the second decline since World War II.
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