Retailing’s Black Friday Hoax Forecasts for large increases in holiday retail sales, designed to get consumers into stores, are...
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One would hope that after a decade of people lamenting the poor reporting of Thanksgiving weekend retail data, the news media might learn...
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Did Black Friday save the season? Beware the retail hype. Barry Ritholtz Washington Post December 2 | Updated: Saturday, December 3,...
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I’ve been meaning to post something on this for a while, but today’s “discount” finally did it for me. As you may...
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Well, not really. As William Engdahl notes at Global Research in Canada, "behind the reassuring statements from Paulson and others...
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Tax-rebate-goosed June Retail Sales rose less than forecast, up 0.1% headline and 0.8% ex-autos. Consensus was for gains of 0.4%...
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Last year, we noted that the Eagles had "Disintermediated the Major Labels" by selling the CD to consumer via Wal-Mart —...
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Our Friday afternoon digression comes via Mark Faber’s Doom, Gloom & Boom report, this has to be the funniest thing I’ve...
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The Consumerist thinks so: They note that it is now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay. Then there is Paypal,...
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Retail Sales were rather unimpressive: Gasoline, Groceries, Food & Beverage were up, while pretty much everything else was flat to...
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