"importantly, the decline in confidence was already in place before the announced increase in the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent on November 6"
So confidence took a tumble BEFORE this sobering unemployment number came out. It's going to be a bleak Christmas shopping season (duh).
We are purchasing as little as possible, and encouraging others to do the same. Staying home, guarding the property, so to speak.
Hussein is at our doorstep waiting to break in and steal everything we own and earn.
Right now we are at a standoff.