The second consumer price survey for 2005 will be completed in December 2005.

This survey almost didn t show that the escalating global trade frictions shook the confidence of large manufacturers.

We had deflation during the Depression, but that was collapse of the money supply, collapse of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.

The result has been a sharp fall in consumer confidence the German index of consumer sentiment was small but positive in November 2000 it has since fallen to 20, the sharpest decline in the euro area.

You put them all together, you mix them up in a bouillabaisse, and you have consumer confidence that's basically a ticking time bomb.

CAMBRIDGE After a double dip recession and an extended period of stagnation, the eurozone is finally seeing green shoots of recovery. Consumer confidence is rising.

And loss of confidence, by discouraging consumption and investment, can be a self fulfilling prophecy, causing the economic weakness that is feared. Significant drops in consumer confidence indices in Europe and North America already reflect this perverse dynamic.

The timing and substance of these consumer survey results suggest that our fundamental outlook about the economy, at the level of the average person, is closely bound up with stories of excessive borrowing, loss of governmental and personal responsibility, and a sense that matters are beyond control. That kind of loss of confidence may well last for years.

Some countries have bucked the global trend. Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

The world s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months. Yet consumer confidence, capital expenditure, and hiring have yet to take a sharp hit.

The expected increase in exports will sustain domestic demand in both countries, and the manageable level of inflation that is predicted may sustain consumer confidence, thereby gradually increasing investment.

Being a retailer, it is a play on the belief that this middle class that's growing will continue to grow, that the boom and the confidence in consumer spending will continue.

In the advanced countries, the fall in asset values and, more generally, fear of what comes next has shattered consumer and business confidence. Consumption is dropping, and companies are cutting investment.

The latest ZEW survey of euro zone business confidence buttresses these fears. It shows that current conditions are good, but that expectations about future conditions have dropped off significantly.

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Interestingly, France is the only large Euro area country where consumer confidence is growing (from 24 a year ago to 13 today). The reason is simple as the 2006 elections approach, reforms have been shifted off the political agenda.

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If a government does not have the will to adopt a reform program, then the best thing it can do is stop talking about reform altogether. This may start happening in Germany and for the same reason consumer confidence remains lackluster.

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The survey also compared the current survey to a survey held in 1993, measuring up police officers stance towards battered women to that of social workers.

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This is a much bigger downswing than was recorded in the overall consumer confidence indices. The decline occurred over the better part of a decade, as we began to see the end of debt driven overexpansion, and accelerated with the latest debt crisis.

Trade is just one among the many linkages between the US and European economies that matter. In today s inter connected global economy, uncertainty about the US economic outlook increases one day, and Dutch consumer confidence, for example, takes a tumble the next.