Rising oil prices won’t prevent a consumer recovery

Fears that the recent rise in oil prices will severely dampen consumer spending are probably somewhat overdone. Indeed, even if oil prices remain at current levels, higher inflation would eat into real wage growth only marginally and the direct impact on household spending would be small.

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