Consumer confidence slides to 12-year low

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index plunged to a 12-year low in September as upper-middle class households began feeling the strain. Marketplace examines why the economic forces behind GDP growth may soon exhaust themselves, what a persistent low-hire, low-fire labor market means for workers, and how high diesel prices are keeping Gulf shrimpers docked. The episode also asks whether the traditional price tag is becoming an endangered species.