Thanks to Free Money, Spending Has Fully Recovered Nearly Everywhere

Give away free money and people will spend it. 

Nearly every class of spending has recovered and some have surged to new heights.

What Free Money Can Do

• Motor vehicles sales are at record highs.
• Nonstore retail sales are just off record highs.
• Despite work-at-home, gasoline has more than recovered.
• Department store sales are just under pre-pandemic levels.
• Food and drinking establishments are the one laggard for understandable reasons. 

Retail Sales Month-Over Month

The month-over-month increases are interesting, 

There were three rounds of Covid stimulus: a year ago under Trump, then in January and March under Biden.

For details, please see Hot Potato Money in Play as Retail Sales Unexpectedly Flop

What happens when the stimulus stops?

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