“Thank God there is truly a market. You know, ‘supply and demand’, and price and all that stuff. It does work for the consumer. Even though it may not work in stocks and bonds and things like that where the Fed can interject and have the Invisible Hand working.
But when it comes to people and to budgets and their income… I just think the consumer has lots of things to be concerned about, with energy going up, interest rates going up.
Of course, health care costs are always uncontrolled… I don’t have a lot of hope for the consumer, notwithstanding the stock market going up all the time and a certain segment of the population making hay here. But the average guy is not doing that well.”
- Source, Sprott Money