[JerseyHighlander]

This was fantastic!

I still believe we’re closer to Brabant Antwerp after the mobs of French Revolutionaries sacked the city-state.

Antwerp never recovered. Rapid decline took 16 years of French revolutionaries’ occupation. The entire entrepreneurial class fled, never to return except to resell goods at retail to the dwindling remaining population.

[george76]

What Recovery? U.S. Consumers Getting “Dramatically Worse,” Howard Davidowitz .

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/381625/What-Recovery-U.S.-Consumers-Getting-%22Dramatically-Worse%E2%80%9D-Howard-Davidowitz-Says?tickers=RTH,XLP,XLY,WMT,TGT,HD,%5EDJI&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

[Tijeras_Slim]

I still believe we’re closer to Brabant Antwerp after the mobs of French Revolutionaries sacked the city-state.

Only on FR would you find such an analogy. Love it.