…holiday with a parade. The parade almost didn’t happen: there was no band, and no one wanted to start marching without music. Once the Jewelers Union of Newark Two showed…

…year. We also saw record levels of road travel on the summer holiday weekends. We know numbers can be skewed by the buying patterns of a small number of rich people, but…

…right before the winter holidays would devastate families. It would hurt the economy, too, since for many retailers the holiday season is when their sales are highest. Musk—who doesn’t answer…

…of course these numbers are seasonally adjusted, but the Holiday season is particularly hard to get right. Below is my in depth synopsis. HEADLINES: 256,000 jobs added. Private sector jobs…

…Holiday season. And that seems to be confirmed by the fact that the YoY change continues to be slightly lower, indicating no significant consumer caution as of yet. Finally, there…

…seasonal shifts during the Holiday season). These were just updated for March last week: There’s no sign of stress at all in high propensity formations. On the flip side, bankruptcy…

…event’s 1950s Red Scare origins even though the actual holiday set forth in P.L. 87-20 is “Law Day.” “NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America,…

…two biggest declines were in each January, and that each December was above average. Holiday spending is always difficult to seasonally adjuste, and has been especially so in the wake…

…the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to…

…notes of interest (Consumer Checkpoint . . . Holiday shopping is up. Consumers may be paying more for less. Spending on holiday items per household surged 5.7% YoY through October….