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Still, NASCAR can't afford to idle its engines when consumer spending is so dismal. "What we have to do is make sure the passionate fan becomes more passionate," says Burton. "We have to make sure the casual fan becomes the passionate fan." There's just one crucial thing Burton...
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Now we seem to be starting to rediscover thrift. Debt levels are falling. Consumer spending is down. The savings rate is on the rise. Great, right? Not exactly. The sudden sobering up of the American consumer happens to be the No. 1 force driving the U.S. and global economies downward...
A painful reckoning was inevitable. And so now, while retailers and a few economists still make the case that more consumer spending would be a really great thing, our nation's political leaders have concluded that it's too soon to issue calls for more shopping. New York Times columnist...
An existing consumer- and business-lending program will be expanded through a new initiative that will leverage up to $1 trillion to unfreeze credit and rekindle moribund secondary lending markets.