[ScrtAccess]

"....because there is an increase in demand for $4.95 Xmas tree lights."

And theres in increase in demand for $4.95 christmas lights because the cost of basic services (food, electricity, gas, water, sewer, Phone) and property/other taxes keep rising and business are cutting hours/wages/benefits and it's all people can afford, if even that.

[Beck_isright]

"And theres in increase in demand for $4.95 christmas lights because the cost of basic services (food, electricity, gas, water, sewer, Phone) and property/other taxes keep rising and business are cutting hours/wages/benefits and it's all people can afford, if even that."

You just hit the home run. And because the average Joe can not afford the nicer, American made $14.95 lights, more Americans lose their jobs. It makes you wonder why in God's name we bother to worry about these things. The market players will be the death of us all.