Comments on: Withering Retail https://blog.speculist.com/economics/withering-retai.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/economics/withering-retai.html#comment-9484 Phil Bowermaster Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:42:58 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1429#comment-9484 Maybe the example you want to use is Target? They seem to be the ones mentioned in all the news coverage about how dismal a shopping season it was. (Interestingly, I haven’t heard the 22.4% bounce for onlne mentioned by anyone by you and InstaPundit.)

Here’s a thought…what if the economy is doing fine, but we’ve just pretty much maxed out on how much stuff we can buy for each other? Shouldn’t there e an upper limit? The stat I want to see is Christmas shopping as a percentage of GDP over the past 20 years.

Then we’d know something.

Or not.

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