{"id":866145,"date":"2026-09-30T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:12:12","slug":"vote-are-you-planning-on-spending-more-or-less-during-this-years-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866145\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Are you planning on spending more or less during this year&#8217;s holiday season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning on spending more or less during this year\u2019s holiday season? Vote in the poll above or <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vote-are-you-planning-on-spending-more-or-less-during-this-years-holiday-season-question-of-the-day-economy-inflation-job-report-federal-reserve-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Two new reports offer encouraging economic signs ahead of the midterms: the Fed\u2019s preferred <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/holiday-spending-expected-to-rise-despite-consumer-gloom-2026-holiday-sales-forecasts-adobe-mastercard-economy#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inflation<\/a> gauge eased to 3% in August, while private employers added 90,000 jobs in September\u2014both better than expected. <\/p>\n<p>Still, inflation remains above the Fed\u2019s 2% target, and affordability is a top voter concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you planning on spending more or less during this year\u2019s holiday season? Vote in the poll above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-866145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}