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  • "In the Tank Forever": U.S. Consumers, Retailers in a "Death Spiral," Davidowitz Says

    08/27/2009 9:01:33 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 33 replies · 1,212+ views
    finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker ^ | 8/27/09 | Peter Gorenstein
    Rather than summarize, let me just highlight some of his best one-liners: On retail: "The retail business is terrible... It's almost all negative." "We're going to close hundreds of thousands of stores." On the consumer: "They’re still over leveraged, they're losing jobs, their credit has been cut back." On America: "We are in the tank forever. As a country we are out of control, we're in a death spiral." On the stock market: "We're in terrible shape. That's what the fundamentals tell me. I can't explain the stock market."