Black Friday

Black Friday seems well-named. Sixty million people reportedly went shopping, stood in long lines, some even trampled other shoppers, bought the bargains they planned to buy, and then bought higher-priced items they hadn’t planned to buy. The stores had planned that. Perhaps the most foolish aspect was a remark by one buyer, “The recession is over.” The lame-duck Congress has not yet voted on the Bush tax cuts. That shopper may have a big surprise in his first pay check of 2011. No one could have paid me enough money to send me shopping today.

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