Retail Sales Slump On Deck: Consumer Spending Slides To Lowest Since March After Worst August Since 2012

When it comes to exposing the disturbing, some say desperate, propaganda wave sweeping the nation, nothing has quite captured the unprecedented decoupling between policy-accepted “confidence indicators” such as the Conference Board, which in August printed at its 2015 highs and those which actually poll people such as Gallup, whose economic outlook indicator collapsed to the lowest level in one year.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/08/2015.