Economic Signals
An exploratory read on consumer pressure, combining your original basket and the new labor, housing, durables, travel, and trade-down indicators.
Compared with the median of the previous six months.
Compared with the same calendar month one year earlier.
Illustrative bands, not a measured hardship rate or a recession probability. The year-ago comparison is not formal seasonal adjustment.
01Five pillars of consumer pressure
Each pillar · 20% weightSource directions are retained as hypotheses, not validated economic relationships. Select a pillar to inspect its history. Related brand and generic queries share a family weight.
02What contributes to the reading
August 2026 · CompositeFamily contributions to the latest composite's deviation from neutral (50). These are weighted index points, not month-on-month changes, sales changes, or evidence of causation.
Pushing the score higher
Largest positive contributions to search pressure
Offsetting the pressure
Largest negative contributions to search pressure
03Every item. Every mapping.
All 201 source entries are preserved in 193 combined rows. Open an item for its source names, exact query, mapping caveats, and full monthly history. Raw rank is across Amazon keywords, not a proprietary 1–193 basket ranking.
| Item / Amazonomics query | Role / pillar | Aug 2026 raw rank | Aug 2025 raw rank | YoY rank movement | Item score | Headline weight | Months observed |
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C: stronger rank raises modeled stress. E: weaker rank raises modeled stress. A: ambiguous. Context-only, conflicting, or incomplete series receive zero headline weight. Missing rank is not zero demand.