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Consumer spending lags, but what about job creation?

Shopping, retail sales, consumer spending — all these things drive economic recovery. But the most significant crisis all of us get hit by during a recession is the loss of a job, or job cutbacks, etc. And until unemployment declines and job creation seriously kicks in, any economic recovery won’t mean much to most folks, will it?

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Did shoppers do their job over holiday shopping season?

Did all you shoppers out there do what you needed to do during the just-ended holiday shopping season to get us out of this recession? Well, did you? No? Why not?

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Keeping busy for the holidays? You bet!

I don’t know about you, but these holidays (holi-daze??) times are keeping me as busy as a guy looking for vitamins for hair growth. Okay, I know that’s probably a lame analogy, but you get the idea — these are busy times.

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