[Mr Ramsbotham]

Pardon me while I just jump out of this basement window.

[Mark was here]

The old green back ain’t what she used to be.

Lowering interest rates, is like moving the dollar from nice department stores, to a table at a flea market. After all they know what it is worth.

[Redleg Duke]

WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!

[Spktyr]

Prediction: Online retailers are going to make out like bandits this year. Brick and mortar stores will get the shaft from consumers who don’t want to stand in endless lines or pay for the store’s fancy decorations and fake holiday cheer.

Further prediction: More states will start pushing for sales tax on items bought over the internet.

[freeangel]

It isn’t going to hurt holidday sales. The people who are being hit had no idea how to manage money in the first place and always kept spending on other “stuff” which is what got them into trouble in the first place.

[6SJ7]

Total holiday retail sales are forecast to rise 4% to $474.5 billion this year, the trade group said.
That would mark the slowest holiday sales growth since 2002, when sales rose 1.3%, and it would fall below the ten-year holiday sales average of a 4.8% increase.

So now a predicted increase that is 0.8% less than the average is a crisis!

[raybbr]

Here it comes. The demand that we spend money on the "Holidays" to keep the economy going.

Spend!

Spend!

Spend your way to prosperity, America!

[Red in Blue PA]

Every year holiday sales are projected to be poor, and every year they far surpass expectations.

Analysts and reporters must have short memories.