{"id":2802,"date":"2025-07-30T01:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:29:14","slug":"americans-becoming-more-hopeful-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Americans Becoming More Hopeful About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Trade Deals Boost Consumer Confidence<\/strong><br>Recent trade agreements by the Trump administration have helped improve public confidence in the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Consumer confidence rose by two points to 97.2 after dropping sharply in spring, when tariffs sparked worries about rising prices and job risks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Stephanie Guichard from The Conference Board said, \u201cConsumer confidence has stabilized since May, rebounding from April\u2019s plunge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tariffs and Price Concerns<\/strong><br>Despite fears, tariffs haven\u2019t caused major price hikes yet. Guichard noted tariffs were \u201cmostly associated with concerns that they would lead to higher prices.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for key items like food and gasoline have stabilized or fallen, though Lauren Goodwin of New York Life Investments warned, \u201cGoods prices in categories sensitive to trade policy\u2026 have started to edge higher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rising Tariff Revenues<\/strong><br>Tariff revenues have surged, reaching $150 billion this year, with July\u2019s $28 billion customs duties hitting a record high. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expects revenues to surpass $300 billion. However, U.S. businesses bear the cost of these import taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Landmark U.S.-EU Energy Deal<\/strong><br>A major trade deal with the European Union includes a commitment to buy $750 billion in American energy, including oil, LNG, and nuclear fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Deals Boost Consumer ConfidenceRecent trade agreements by the Trump administration have helped improve public confidence in the economy. Consumer confidence rose by two points to 97.2 after dropping sharply in spring, when tariffs sparked worries about rising prices and job risks. As Stephanie Guichard from The Conference Board said, \u201cConsumer confidence has stabilized since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}