Thursday, July 7, 2011

Some data on discretionary services spending

Jonathan McCarthy has a post (see here) on the blog of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York about the significant decline in discretionary services spending in this recession.  He states:

The pronounced weakness in personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for services has been an unusual feature of the 2007-09 recession and the slow recovery from it.

He has a graph (see below, click to enlarge) that tells the story.

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