The David Lin Report · Saturday, August 1, 2026
Evidence suggests that the financial community is actively using data from the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers in their decision-making and research. While they consider various data sets, the consumer sentiment index provides valuable information for their analysis.
“I mean, based on, on the feedback that I receive from people, uh, and, you know, who's commenting and who's downloading our data, it seems pretty clear that people are folding in some information from the surveys of consumers into, uh, into their decision-making or at least into their research.”
“Um, I will say that any researcher or investor is going to be looking at lots of different data sets, lots of different data points.”