CONCLUDED Fed Meeting Today: Interest Rates, Quantitative Tightening, Powell Speech, and More Last Updated: 3 hours ago Higher-Income Consumers Are Spending, Lower- Income Households Are Hurting By Sabrina Escobar Saved Articles Watchlist Newsletters Video Center Spending is still powering the U.S. economy as consumer balance sheets remain healthy. "While some households are clearly under stress, in the aggregate, households are negotiating financially relatively manageable levels of debt,†Powell said. Yet, ...