I'm honestly curious: Do you really think that the current economic chaos is all made up because a mall was busy? Addicts get their fixes any way they can before they hit the bottom. Likely a high percentage of the shoppers you see will default on their credit cards in the coming new year.
It fits the national data showing higher Christmas sales.
Many Freepers are flat clueless, because they refuse to study about the liquidity crisis. In a way, I don’t blame them for being cynical and distrusting what they read in the MSM, and thinking the worst of the leftists. No surprise there.
But the bulk of Freepers are just too busy or too apathetic to really study this liquidity crisis. As a result, you get ignorant asinine posts like these on a continuing, ongoing basis. Lots of people here honestly think this is nothing but either a manufactured crisis or an all out lie while the economy is really not so bad.
Just mind-numbing to think people could be so ignorant or so stupid.
Maybe it is not the bulk anymore, as more are feeling the downturn in their immediate pocketbooks. But there are many that must be wealthy enough retirees or who haven’t been hit in their personal employment, to be insulated in their day to day life, and are just clueless about the details of this true financial crisis, now economic crisis.
That is EXACTLY my thought. People are having some retail therapy and getting in every purchase they can on their credit card before they either lose them, or get bailed out.
I’m a little stumped to claim that the entire economic issue is manufactured because some people were shopping. At Christmas.
Where will the prices go next week?
Customers are looking for the best deals and I've had a lot more people putting things back once they get to the check-out after reaching their budgetary limit. The kids in many cases are still getting their ‘Christmas’ this year. Many adults are talking about how agreements were reached of no gift exchanges between the adults this year or there is just one large family gift.
I am pegging this holiday retail season as the last hurrah for many! The experts will look at the retail numbers and never have heard the remarks at the checkout. Consumers are pulling back, but many are waiting until the New Year to really put the pinch on things.