Consumer confidence is inching back up (even January’s dip has been revised upward a bit).

People still aren’t feeling great about the present moment, but expectations for the future are getting rosier.

The index is currently sitting at about 2015 levels.

Interestingly:

Consumers’ plans to buy big-ticket items over the next six months rose

The generational split is interesting too (even though generations are garbage)

A line graph shows the Consumer Confidence Index for different generations from October 2020 to December 2021, with each generation represented by a different colored line.