Without strong and steady consumer demand, businesses will not hire, and a self-sustaining recovery cannot take hold.
"For all the political heat that the tax cut is taking," he said, "it's helping steady consumer demand right now".
During the good years, the years for which places like Lakewood and Canoga Park and El Segundo and Pico Rivera existed, the preferred resident was in fact an adolescent or postadolescent male, ideally one already married and mortgaged, in harness to the plant, a good worker, a steady consumer, a team player, someone who played ball, a good citizen.
Ms. McDonald, who is on summer hiatus from her ABC series "Private Practice," has performed at Joe's Pub at the Public and been a steady consumer of the theater's fare, but her many years onstage have not included a Public production until now.
Helping drive growth will be steady consumer spending and companies investing in their businesses to fund expansion.
Analysts say steady consumer interest in smart phones and a string of device launches likely boosted RIM's fiscal second quarter, which ended Aug. 31.
Alec Young, an international equity strategist with Standard & Poor's, says that the hunt for raw materials and steady consumer growth has sparked increased investment in smaller but riskier countries.
Investors looking to put cash to work in stocks but fearful of an American earnings bust next year should look at China, where continued gross domestic product expansion and steady consumer spending will help to sustain profits, according to Neil Shen, a managing partner at Sequoia Capital China.
P&G's financial results weren't far from Wall Street expectations, but this slow-but-steady consumer products stock is not holding its recent gains on a day when sexy tech stocks are staging a recovery.
With energy prices on a steady climb, consumers have been looking for ways to cut back.
