Fiscal Deficits and Consumer Spending

Understand how fiscal deficits influence consumer spending in specific sectors:

Industries like restaurants and travel are less sensitive to monetary policy changes.
Social Security recipients and upper-middle-class individuals with money market holdings drive spending in these sectors.
Companies like American Express and Booking.com benefit from this dynamic because their customers are less affected by harmful monetary policies but are direct beneficiaries of fiscal deficits.

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