Macleans.ca » consumer spending http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Fri, 24 May 2013 20:49:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 America’s economy is back http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/02/business-2/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/02/business-2/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:50:00 +0000 Jonathon Gatehouse http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=365573 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/02/business-2/feed/ 0 Jobs are returning, factories are humming -- the U.S. economy is taking off What happens when shopping’s sense of plenty turns out to be fake? http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/lessons-from-towel-gate/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/lessons-from-towel-gate/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000 Anne Kingston http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=362618 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/lessons-from-towel-gate/feed/ 0 Lessons from Bed, Bath & Beyond's 'towel-gate' Fourth-quarter GDP growth was bad: here’s why http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/fourth-quarter-gdp-growth-will-be-bad-expect-more-of-that/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/fourth-quarter-gdp-growth-will-be-bad-expect-more-of-that/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:14:52 +0000 Erica Alini http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=354427 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/fourth-quarter-gdp-growth-will-be-bad-expect-more-of-that/feed/ 0 The Canadian economy needs a lift, but the world isn't co-operating Americans spent more in August, just mostly on gas http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/28/americans-spent-more-in-august-must-mostly-on-gas/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/28/americans-spent-more-in-august-must-mostly-on-gas/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:40:06 +0000 The Associated Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=298044 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/28/americans-spent-more-in-august-must-mostly-on-gas/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON – Americans boosted their spending in August even though their income barely grew....