durables

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Consumer durables growth has collapsed from 11% to 1-2%.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

More likely are gradual and targeted policies, such as raising incomes for low-income households or shifting the recent trade-in and subsidy programs for durables like household appliances and cars into services.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The behavior is that middle-income households have spent refund checks on deferred durables for decades.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

Expenditure on durables rose 2.0%, while expenditure on services fell 0.1% and non-durables fell 0.2%, the data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

We've begun ag'in' the Rensselaers, and the durables, and the quarter-sales, and the chickens; but we don't, by no manner of means, think of eending there.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore