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Is this as good as it gets for households?

The strength in consumer spending has been crucial to the economy’s resilience over the past year but there are three reasons why many people think that the consumer sector is living on borrowed time – namely an unfavourable outlook for incomes, low levels of saving and the onset of rising interest rates. We suspect these concerns could prove overdone.

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