Consumer Confidence Why It Predicts the Future

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Michigan's sentiment survey craters to 50.0 in June 2022, a reading below both the 2008 crash and 1980 stagflation, right before a scatter plot checks whether that confidence number six months earlier lines up with the retail sales that follow it.

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