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Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, estimates that higher gasoline prices will likely only add roughly 0.3 percentage points to headline sales in the April data.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

“The real test will come in May, by which point the flow of tax refunds will have tapered off significantly, while high gas prices probably will remain elevated,” Tombs writes.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

But Samuel Tombs, chief US economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said job growth was likely to start to slow in the coming months.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

But that could mean that the second-round effects of higher oil and energy prices, which would fuel further inflation, are less severe, according to Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

There would be no difficulty now about getting the two horses out of the North gate and then on to the Tombs.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis