{"id":240596,"date":"2026-07-10T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240596\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:22:12","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-7-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240596\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 7\/10\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail Sales Rose Faster Than Expected<\/p>\n<p>The latest Census Bureau data shows 0.9% growth in retail sales in May, marking the fourth straight month of expansion and lifting total spending to $764 billion. Year-over-year, that is a whopping 6.9% jump.<br \/>Nominal figures show how much cash is changing hands, but inflation is doing the heavy lifting. Adjusted for rising prices, that 6.9% annual surge shrinks to a much lower, however, still respectable 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 7\/10\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail Sales Rose Faster Than Expected The latest Census Bureau data shows 0.9% growth in retail sales in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-240596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}