Business Insights: Capital Spending in Broad Uptrend
                            
                
                    
                                Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
                                Business Administration and Business Economics
                
                                                
                                Consumer spending on autos and other
durables and residential construction have
led the expansion that began in the spring of
1975. Business investments in inventories and
capital goods have also increased, but not at a
pace that compares with the boom of 1973-74.