Falling consumer confidence

 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/11/uk-households-brace-cost-of-living-crisis-pwc-survey-consumer-confidence and https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/23/uk-braces-for-price-rises-driven-by-iran-war-as-economic-confidence-plummets

 Consumer confidence in action https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4vzpggkjno

Declining real disposable incomes

 Thanks to tutor2u/the Guardian https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/disposable-incomes-the-big-squeeze-continues?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20tutor2u%20Economics%20blog&utm_content=Daily%20tutor2u%20Economics%20blog+CID_4e087d339a6265b4e2c82f915ce39dfb&utm_source=CampMonitor&utm_term=Disposable%20Incomes%20-%20The%20Big%20Squeeze%20Continues

REal wages fall

 Thanks to the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60373405

Consumer confidence index

 From gfk

https://www.retaileconomics.co.uk/retail-insights/gfk-consumer-confidence-index-january-2021 

and Trading Economics 

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/consumer-confidence

UK Economy Update 2019: Consumer Spending and Saving

Thanks to tutor2u
https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/uk-economy-update-2019-consumer-spending-and-saving

The wealth effect

Thanks to economicshelp
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/140745/economics/the-wealth-effect/

Causes of Consumer Spending

Thanks to economicshelp
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/396/economics/consumer-spending-its-causes-and-effects/

Family spending in the UK: financial year ending March 2016

Thanks to the ONS
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/bulletins/familyspendingintheuk/financialyearendingmarch2016

Consumer confidence data

A useful index
http://www.gfk.com/en-gb/insights/report/uk-confidence/

Consumer confidence

Thanks to economicshelp for this
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6544/economics/uk-consumer-confidence-2/

Lower consumer confidence in the UK

.....reports Sky
http://news.sky.com/story/1670031/consumer-confidence-remains-lowest-since-2014

Why is consumption (and therefore growth) stagnent/falling in Japan?

Great clip rom the BBC


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32799139

Unit 2: Why is saving high and consumtion low in China?

A nice clip with the answers from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25309669#

Unit 2: Rising consumer confidence in the UK

....reports the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23565711#

Unit 2: Rising consumption to increase China's economic growth?

So it would seem from this BBC clip

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22961571#

Unit 2: Consumption and AD data Oct 2012

Thanks to tutor2u for this data

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-2-macro-are-uk-consumers-on-the-comeback-trail?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:20:40:02Z

Unit 2: Real disposable income and Consumption

Nice revision piece with data from tutor2u

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-2-macro-revision-on-real-disposable-income

Unit 2: Updated macro data

...from tutor2u covering GDP and consumption (amongst others)

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/life-in-the-slow-lane-uk-growth-in-2011-lags-the-euro-area

Unit 2: What determines consumer confidence?

Nice clip from the BBC explaining how the Nationwide survey does it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17487689