Influx

While marketers maybe concerned about the prevailing head and tailwinds of the economy, these short-term yardsticks are nothing compared to the demographic time bomb that everyone is going to have to face up to sooner than they think. Bill Gross of PIMCO investments was concerned enough about the...

The Economist's blog offers a sobering perspective on the future of consumer spending in the US. "If American households have been forced to debt-finance spending on necessities, and if debt financing is unlikely to be as cheap or available in the future as it was in the recent past, then...