The Sunshine Report

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Category Archive: Retail Sales

  1. Christmas Sales May Not Be A Wash Out This Year

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    Believe it or not it is time to start to think about Christ­mas sales. This is the sea­son when retail­ers start to indi­cate amounts and prices for Christ­mas goods and early indi­ca­tors of retailer orders are rel­a­tively strong and seem to be gain­ing momen­tum. While Christ­mas is still nine months away, because of design, pro­duc­tion, […] [read full story]

    Posted in: economy, Finance, Public Policy, Retail Sales

  2. Money Supply And Economic Data Weekly Watch – Deflation Hurts The Economy Like Hydrochloric Acid Burns Through Steel

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    Defla­tion hurts the econ­omy like hydrochlo­ric acid burns through steel. Falling prices destroy cor­po­rate and house­hold bal­ance sheets and make it impos­si­ble for the finan­cial sec­tor to func­tion nor­mally. Demand is destroyed by defla­tion which in turn leads to more defla­tion. The weak­est sec­tors are hurt first, but defla­tion quickly burns through healthy indus­tries. This […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, Bernanke, CPI, Deflation, Economic Statistics, Finance, GDP, Inflation, M1, M2, Manufacturing, monetary policy, Money Supply, Obama, Oil, Politics, Public Policy, Retail Sales

  3. Money Supply and Economic Data Weekly Watch – Not All Savings Is Good Savings

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    Sav­ings increased but for the wrongs rea­sons The per­sonal sav­ings rate in Octo­ber was esti­mated to be 2.4% which was an increase of 1.4% from September’s sav­ings rate.  Nor­mally, dur­ing peri­ods of ris­ing unem­ploy­ment and increas­ing eco­nomic hard­ship the per­sonal sav­ings rate declines because some house­holds spend more than they earn. When con­sumers are con­fi­dent about […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Black Friday, Federal Funds Rate, Federal Reserve, Finance, Liquidity Trap, M2, Money Supply, PCE Price Index, Retail Sales, Savings Rate

  4. Too Bad The Grinch Already Stole Christmas!!

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    Too bad Christ­mas has already been stolen by the Grinch. Christ­mas sales of dis­cre­tionary items such as apparel, elec­tron­ics, fur­ni­ture and other soft goods are going to be down regard­less of whether or not con­sumer con­fi­dence is restored in the next month. The rea­son for my down­beat pre­dic­tion of Christ­mas sales is orders for dis­cre­tionary […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Economic Statistics, economy, Finance, Retail Sales