Households have rarely had it so good – no inflation, strong jobs growth, reviving earnings, a breather from austerity and falling borrowing costs. As a result, we think that real household spending could grow by a solid 3% this year, the most for a decade. And while the fiscal squeeze will resume in earnest next year, we doubt that the recovery in spending will slow very sharply in 2016.
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