…to go, not to mention picking up some holiday stuff.  We had been planning it for several days, again, nothing to do with politics at all. The word of the…

…not just an artifact of low reporting over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It seems more likely that the “libertarian” northern Great Plains States finally reached their pain threshold, where the…

…threat to Social Security now is the “payroll tax holiday.”  It’s as if the man in the suit talked you into taking your retirement savings and buying a new car, or…

…-0.2%. So at the very least, we need to see if December changes the holiday dynamic this year. On an absolute basis, real retail sales are still up 2.9% since…

The 2004-2020 political red/blue shift: the intersection of geography, the economy, and ethnic migration It’s a very slow, holiday-shortened economic week. We’ll get new home sales, plus personal income and…

…last couple of months, I have been cautioning that the holiday season plays havoc with seasonality even in normal years, let alone a year when the pandemic is causing changes…

…be seen in my next graph. For the last couple of months, I have been cautioning that the holiday season plays havoc with seasonality even in normal years, let alone…

…holiday season even in ordinary years plays havoc with seasonal adjustments, I have been posting the YoY% change in the numbers as well, since they will be much less affected…

…Labor Day as a marker for a good COVID recovery – which I was reminded of because the aforesaid holiday is this weekend. Well, we blew through that a while…

…Delta wave was just before Labor Day. We’ll probably get a pop in the weekly average number tomorrow, as today’s numbers replace the Labor Day holiday numbers, but unless there…