{"id":2031,"date":"2019-05-03T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:22:03","slug":"brad-williams-u-s-consumer-spending-is-the-strongest-in-9-5-years-can-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/brad-williams-u-s-consumer-spending-is-the-strongest-in-9-5-years-can-it-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Williams: U.S consumer spending is the strongest in 9.5 years, can it last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Williams, President of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbradwilliams.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Williams Financial Services<\/a>\u201d, discusses with Kurt Schemers and Don McKelvey on Traders Nation\u00ae on how U.S consumer spending has increased the largest in 9 \u00bd years. Discover where consumers are dropping the most money on retail goods, and what the drive behind such large purchases is.<\/p>\n<p>Williams also gives us the hard numbers of growth in the economy and his expectations of how 2019 will roll-on. \u00a0Inflationary pressures were benign in March, of which, help fuel consumer spending. But, the big question is, \u201cwill the FED hike rates, and if they do, will it take the steam out of the economy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Williams, President of \u201cBrad Williams Financial Services\u201d, discusses with Kurt Schemers and Don McKelvey on Traders Nation\u00ae on how U.S consumer spending has increased the largest in 9 \u00bd years. Discover where consumers are dropping the most money on retail goods, and what the drive behind such large purchases is. Williams also gives us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,99],"tags":[253,118],"class_list":{"0":"post-2031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-betterment","8":"category-retail","9":"tag-consumer-confidence","10":"tag-spending","11":"post_format-post-format-video"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}