Worthless holiday shopping hype returns

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Retail sales were not up 16% during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Nor were they up 14% on Nov. 29, Black Friday. That we even have to state this tells us a lot about how easy it is to fool people into believing things that are not true.

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