How Good Were Holiday Sales Really?
The answer to that question depends upon who you ask. Speak to ShopperTrak, they will tell you that even though traffic was off, sales...
Cool site of the day: FeeDisclosure.com
FeeDisclosure.com: FeeDisclosure has developed a (patent pending) online portal to breakdown complicated real estate vendor fees. The...
Durable Goods Flat, Business CapEx Spending Falls
Durable Goods data was just released, and it warn’t none too purty: +0.1%. That’s far below the expected 2% consensus. The...
NYC Bargains for Europeans
Hey, not everything I say is negative. Here’s some upbeat comments about Europeans going shopping here in NYC I made to the NY...
Real Holiday Spending Was Negative in 2007
The Retail Sales post-mortem has begun, and it is as we expected: the weakest holiday spending season in five years. Total sales gains...
Christmas Eve Retail Post-Mortem
While we won’t get the full data for a few days, some early numbers are beginning to come in. The most chartable thing I can say...
More Retail Sales Hype
Most people usually have a good reason for doing what it is that they do. Whenever I am asked why I blog or push back against headlines,...
High Cost of Living Extremely Well Index
The Rich really are different — as today’s chart porn reveals. It has to do with inflation — the High Cost of Living...
Retail Sales Softer (Ignore the Surveys)
If you want to know: – What people think, ask them questions. – What people are doing, look at the data. – What they...