Yesterday the BEA released
personal income information. In part 1 I'll look at the charts from the income portion. In part II I'll look at the expenditures.
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The general trend for compensation is down.

Employee compensation is down as well, as are

wages and

Personal income and receipts from assets. The only sub-part of income increasing over the last 7 months is

Transfer payments.