For twenty years or more, the entire world has been duped into action based on faulty, flawed, incomplete, exaggerated or untestable "science". Governments have enacted policies to combat the "effects" of a phenomena the existence of which has never been proven, and the validity of which has just been destroyed.
Fact: adding the suffic "-gate" to any other word(s), to denote political scandal does not make you clever. This has been bothering me for some time. I think "Climategate" was the last straw, so-to-speak.
It will be interesting to see what sort of retail numbers come out for this bellwether weekend, and further, whether they can be sustained. Against the current economic backdrop, poorer than expected holiday sales would be really bad news. Currently, Bloomberg is reporting that holiday spending appears to be up slightly. I wouldn't know. I stayed very clear of all shopping venues yesterday, bringing my YTD holiday spending total to $0.
