5️⃣ Consumers were more pessimistic about current and future labor-market conditions, as well as the outlook for incomes and business conditions. 📖: #LaborMarket# #Economy#

How are consumers using AI in their personal lives? New analysis across ~40k Claude conversations 👇 The biggest category is health / wellness, followed by professional / career. There's a big dropoff to #3# (relationships).

Auto debt is becoming a bigger problem for consumers, a new report shows. Total auto debt reached $1.68 trillion at the end of 2025 — a 37% increase since late 2018, when the debt was at $1.23 trillion, according to a new analysis by The Century Foundation, a left-leaning think tank, and Protect Borrowers, a consumer advocacy group, provided exclusively to CNBC. That figure includes traditional installment loans and leases. Learn more about the surge in auto debt:

It shouldn’t be up to parents and consumers to research the harmful chemicals in products. Congress needs to make sure products are safe. Join me and @ewg in helping to pass safer cosmetics legislation: #BeautyMadeBetter#

Americans are very worried about their jobs: The perceived probability among US consumers that the unemployment rate will be higher in 1-year increased +0.4 percentage points in April, to 43.9%, the highest in 12 months. Excluding April 2025, this is the highest reading since the 2020 pandemic spike, according to the NY Fed. Since the start of 2025, this percentage has risen +10 points. Meanwhile, 61% of consumers expect unemployment to increase over the next 12 months, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. By comparison, only 14% of respondents expected unemployment to rise in 2021. This level of pessimism has never happened outside of a recession. Job market expectations are at recession-like levels.

The next stablecoin inflection point was going to be when stablecoins became an “expectation” from consumers checking out on a website (the same way you expect merchants to accept cards). I thought we were a few years away. But now it’s clear large platforms will be forced to support stablecoins, because it will be an expectation from agents in the next 6-12months.