Another factor depressing consumption is the recent bump in interest rates.
Some of the recent bump must be attributed to the rise of e-readers, whose owners report an increase in their own reading habits thanks to the devices' conveniences.
The recent bump in adoption, though, could be attributed to the mid-February press coverage the startup had after closing its seed round – it's too soon to extrapolate those numbers out to imply longer-term commitments from its early adopters.
Despite the recent bump in shootings, the number of homicides pale in comparison with the number of killings during the early 2000s and especially the early to mid-1990s, when L.A. County had about 2,000 homicides some years.
Even the recent bump in Trump's popularity following the Republican National Convention was cited by several of Russia's state-owned channels as strong evidence of Clinton's growing unpopularity.
I believe the recent bump in the sales of 1984 by George Orwell, when the unfortunate phrase "Alternate Fact" entered the lexicon, was a signal that we need to educate ourselves quickly on the ways that propaganda and newspeak are being used against us.
The most recent bump in the road has been the scathing criticism of Geithner by Neil Barofsky, the TARP special inspector, over the funneling of taxpayer funds intended to bailout AIG to its counterparties including Goldman Sachs.
And it looks like that is not the only recent bump for the startup: It appears to have quietly raised another $50 million in funding.
We believe it is more likely that the weakness is temporary and that we will probably recover from this recent bump.
