Real Personal Income Down 20% from One Year Ago

Via Brownstone Institute

by David Stockman

Well, here’s another shocker. This Commerce Department report showed that real disposable personal income in March came in at -19.9% versus March 2021.

That staggering shrinkage, of course, is still another testimony to the old saw about “what goes around, comes around.” That is, last March real disposable incomes soared by nearly 29% owing to the massive Biden stimulus payments. But since then inflation has blasted skyward, even as Washington has run out of nerve on the fiscal stimulus front.

Y/Y Change In Real Disposable Income,February 2020 to March 2022 Continue reading “Real Personal Income Down 20% from One Year Ago”