The numbers are in and, guess what? Sales ROSE in November! In spite of repeated reports of how shoppers weren’t coming out.
The Los Angeles Times this afternoon summed it up, “The government’s report came as a surprise but retail sales rose 1.3 percent last month, after a 1.1 percent October gain, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the biggest advance since sales jumped 2.4 percent in August, and more than double the 0.6 percent increase economists had expected”.
Look for the media to pick this up and run the, “Well, it doesn’t mean anything or the numbers are skewed” they’ll have to find a way to spin it badly.
