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Consumer Health vs. Consumer Confidence
Palanor Consumer Health Index and Consumer Confidence Index, 0 to 100
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Consumer Health (the ledger) · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Consumer Confidence (the mood) · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
Both indices score today against their own recent history. Consumer Health reads income, prices and credit; Consumer Confidence reads surveys and sentiment.
Two Palanor indices side by side: one measures what households earn, pay and owe, the other how they feel about it. When the lines part, mood and money are telling different stories.
What this chart reads
- The Consumer Health Indexas “Consumer Health (the ledger)”latest 2026-10-22
- Palanor: Consumer Confidenceas “Consumer Confidence (the mood)”latest 2026-10-22
Sources
The Consumer Health Index. Source: Computed by Palanor from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Census Bureau, Federal Reserve Board, Freddie Mac and US Energy Information Administration series via FRED; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit; the Survey of Consumer Expectations, © 2013-2026 Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), which disclaims any responsibility for this analysis and interpretation; and Google Trends. Methodology is Palanor's; the underlying data are public.
Palanor: Consumer Confidence. Source: Computed daily by Palanor from 9 component signals in the lattice. Each component's weight, transform and current contribution is shown on the index's methodology page.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.