Monday, December 01, 2008

Positive Economic Indicators

NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Wall Street analysts seemed to breath a sigh of relief Monday on evidence that unusual price cuts by Apple Inc. helped boost sales of iPods and Macintosh computers over the Black Friday weekend.
Oh hell, we're all screwed.

LOS ANGELES (LA TIMES) - Bargain-hungry consumers gave the nation's retailers a much-needed early holiday boost with surprisingly healthy sales on Black Friday that tapered off Saturday and Sunday."It was a retail manager's dream," said Marissa Marks, store manager at the Beverly Center's L'Occitane boutique, which saw Black Friday sales double to $4,000 from last year. But, she added Sunday, "yesterday and today are not so good."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you suggesting the economy is fine?

How did the stock market do today?

piker62 said...

Sorry, I was being excessively ironic. The economy is tanking. Unless you own Apple stock.

Publius said...

..but... but... Obambi won. I thought it was now heaven on Earth!?

piker62 said...

It will be, if you're gradin' on the curve. Bush dragged down the standards far enough that competent governance is going to look like like a g******m miracle.

Publius said...

Too bad we won't see that competence you brag about.