Holiday Sales Collapse – Massive Layoffs Coming Soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rBM1sIiGU I didn’t see the usual “after Christmas sales” ads on tv, print, or on the internet. I thought it a sign. BC
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Pending home sales, Richmond Fed, Holiday retail sales
by WARREN MOSLER Bad: Highlights Existing home sales have been leveling but the signal from pending home sales points to a new downturn. The pending home sales index for November fell 0.7 percent to 101.4 which is under Econoday’s consensus range …
Mastercard Releases First Tabulated Holiday Sales Report With Whopping 5.1% Increase
by sundance As CTH anticipated the first tabulated holiday sales report via Mastercard® shows the results of a very strong consumer confidence level. The first report highlights a very strong 5.1% increase in holiday purchases: “Wall Street is running around like a chicken …
TSA estimates record 46 million holiday fliers
If you are hankering to be one among millions this holiday, do not bother with the shopping malls, just head to the airport, where nearly 46 million people will mix travel anxiety with Christmas anxiety and a tad of family-get-together …
AAA Predicts Record-Breaking Holiday Travel
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – AAA is predicting that this holiday season will be a record-breaking year. WEB EXTRA: Read AAA’s complete travel forecast (.pdf) Numbers released Thursday morning show that 112.5 million people are expected to be traveling in the air and …
5 (MORE) Natural And Healthy Ways To Beat The Holiday Stress
via Sara Tipton: After experiencing the hustle and bustle of the holiday season year after year, many of the best of get burned out, stressed out, and out wallets get wiped out. But this year, we’ve compiled a handy list of …
Average Cost of a Weeklong Holiday, in Selected Cities
via eyeball1234: Here’s the output for Sofia, using the same assumptions from the chart. Interested to hear your thoughts. https://imgur.com/a/BDW9nbd
Christmas is ‘too commercial’ so school bans holiday: report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWJzRWaGUM FOX News reports, A school has banned Christmas for being too commercial – and is making kids beg for the holiday’s return. Pupils at Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering, North Yorks., were told they must write to their religious …
10 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Happy Homesteader
via Tess Pennington: Natural living, homesteading, and those interested in living more sustainably is increasing every year. Perhaps it is because people are finding that the ever-changing technologies of today are overwhelming and they feel more at peace living more naturally. …
Lincoln and Thanksgiving: The Origin of an American Holiday
The very first Thanksgiving happened almost 400 years ago – long before the nation was born. How did it evolve into America’s quintessential national holiday? Credit largely goes to two people – one, a name you know; the other, you’ve …
28% holiday shoppers still in debt from LAST year…
Almost 3 in 10 shoppers are going into the holiday season still carrying debt from last year’s festivities. Experts suggest crafting a strategy in two parts: Wrangle your debt and scale back your holiday budget. For some people, opening …
10 Holiday Gift Ideas That Will Actually Make You Healthier
via Lisa Egan: Finding unique and useful gifts for the people you care about can be challenging, but hopefully, we can help out a bit. Here’s a list of health and wellness gift ideas just about anyone would appreciate. 1. White …
Expect Holiday Spending Boom, 2020 Bust, Says Moody’s Ryan Sweet
by FS Financial Sense Newshour spoke with Ryan Sweet, director of real-time economics at Moody’s Analytics, to discuss his forecast for a holiday spending boom and 2020 bust. Ryan is considered one of the most accurate high-frequency forecasters of the …
Are Retailers Ready for the $1 Trillion Holiday Shopping Rush?
The holiday shopping season is around the corner and retailers are hoping for big time revenue. And retailers may just get their holiday wish. According to an eMarketer study, the projected retail sales this holiday season may be an excess …
Thanksgiving Menu Suggestions for Your Holiday Meal— From Days Gone By
by Jesse The prices have not been adjusted for inflation. The cheapest Thanksgiving Day hotel buffet my sister-in-law found in Manhattan was $110 per person for her band moms from Ohio. I sent this link at Mommy Poppins to her, and said …
Triggered: Moms Demand upset with shotgun shell holiday décor lights
by DCG You see violence, I see some awesome decorative lights. From Fox5DC: Walmart decided to bring in the Christmas season with an unusual set of lights that has a lot of people talking. The retailer has listed the set of 10 Red …
BOOM: Holiday sales predicted to surpass $1 Trillion for first time…. BUST: Americans take out $50 billion in payday loans a year
Total retail sales in the U.S will hit $1.002 trillion during the Christmas holiday period, marking the “strongest growth since 2011,” according to eMarketer. In-store sales are forecast to rise 4.4 percent year-on-year, while e-commerce sales are predicted to grow …
Amazon drops $25 minimum for Free Shipping through Holiday Season… Target $TGT also has free 2-day shipping.
Bold move, gonna shave off quite a bit of Walmart’s top line this quarter since a big appeal of their eCommerce business is offering Free Shipping to customers without the need to buy a membership. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/11/05/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season/1889512002/ Target …
Amazon Hires 20,000 Less Workers For Holiday Season As Robots Continue To Take A Larger Slice of The Workforce Pie
by Geoffrey Grider Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when …
Record 47 million expected to travel for U.S. July Fourth holiday
Jarrett Renshaw for Yahoo News reports, U.S. travelers will hit the roads, rails and airports in record numbers this Fourth of July holiday, despite higher gasoline prices, the nation’s largest automotive advocacy group said on Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGXr8gB9Vg Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-47-…
Sears is Dead Meat Walking, after Horrid Holiday Quarter
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Why is Sears’ CEO still touting “progress,” even in SEC filings? Why not tell investors the truth, for once? Sears Holdings — the storied and once dominant retailer turned into the biggest tragedy in US retail …
Would This Have Happened Under President Hillary? Holiday Retail Sales Soar Compare To Last Year
By Michael Snyder We are nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the economic numbers continue to look quite good. On Monday, we learned that U.S. retail sales during the holiday season are projected to be way up compared …
Credit-Card Payments and Subprime Auto Defaults Are Soaring…Holiday Spending Set To Hit 12-Year High Thanks To…Debt
Credit-Card Payments SURGE Americans increasingly relied on credit cards to make payments in 2016, and made more of those payments remotely, according to new data the Federal Reserve released Thursday. The number of credit-card payments grew 10.2% last year, to …
MERRY CHRISTMAS! STAY SAFE AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. ISIS Has Put Out A Holiday HIT LIST On Churches In All 50 States.
by Pamela Williams This is a message of joy and hope as Christians celebrate and worship in their church of choice this Christmas. We have accepted that with every day we are fortunate enough to breathe, we are unfortunate enough …