It seems that the ‘experts” were wrong again.  Every year the news media makes some wild predictions about the Christmas shopping season and they get it wrong.

Yesterday sales were up at 8.3% across a number of retailers. Look for the media to continue to try to talk down the economy. 

Weren’t they doing the same thing last year?  Gloom and Doom.  The fact is that sales grew a very healthy 4.8%.  This year the gloom and doom numbers their predicting (and we’ll likely surpass are at 3.6%.)

Come-on you can’t portray 3.6% growth as poor?  And anyway why does the media constantly run with these stories.  They’re often wrong, but even if they weren’t, it’s not news.