{"id":9621,"date":"2025-06-04T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:40:03","slug":"post-covid-revenge-spending-appears-to-be-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/04\/post-covid-revenge-spending-appears-to-be-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-COVID \u2018revenge spending\u2019 appears to be on the way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/consumer-news\/2025\/06\/post-covid-revenge-spending-appears-to-be-on-the-way-out\/\">WTOP<\/a> After COVID restrictions lifted,&nbsp;many of us made up for lost time by shopping, leading to a trend known as \u201crevenge spending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, with uncertainty surrounding the economy, it appears many are turning in the opposite direction and putting a focus on saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2025\/personal-income-and-outlays-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"a report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis released last week,, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis released last week,<\/a>\u00a0the personal savings rate increased to 4.9% in April from 4.1% in January, which shows how much Americans are saving their money after the pandemic and in the face of ever-changing tariff policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/consumer-news\/2025\/06\/post-covid-revenge-spending-appears-to-be-on-the-way-out\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTOP After COVID restrictions lifted,&nbsp;many of us made up for lost time by shopping, leading to a trend known as \u201crevenge spending.\u201d Now, with uncertainty surrounding the economy, it appears many are turning in the opposite direction and putting a focus on saving. According to\u00a0a report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis released last week,\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}