Seriously, this rally does look to have some legs, even though they're diseased chicken legs. I get a sense that the overspending consumers have one last splurge left in them, and they're bound and determined to take that splurge.
.....I agree and I think it will come over Christmas...a buddy of mine Smokey; was a child in the 1930s in rural North Carolina.....one year his father didn't know what he was going to do because Christmas was coming on and he had ended up in the hole sharecropping cotton that year....but his dad had a team of mules and a wagon so he loaded and hauled sawmill slabs for a local sawyer for two days from dawn til dark.....in the end the sawyer cheated him, but he made enough for Smokey and his sister to get a present from Santa...they each got a little rubber ball. Moral of the story: parents will go to great lengths to made sure their kids have the best Christmas they can give them.
As always, thanks Rohry and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Stonewalls