U.S. monthly consumer spending highest since 2008

(June 7, 2013) -- Americans' spending climbed into the $80-per-day range last December and has stayed at or above that level after hovering in the low $70 range through most of 2012. The May 2008 figure of $114 per day is the highest average spending figure Gallup has found in any month since it started tracking spending daily in January 2008.