mainstream media totally blows it on retail sales by lee adler.   "u.s. retail sales rose briskly in october" screamed the wall street journal on tuesday. it was talking about the top line seasonally adjusted version of the month to month change, including inflation. here at contra corner we<u+2019>re not really interested in what the seasonally finagled, nominal numbers say. we want the unvarnished, not seasonally manipulated truth.
mainstream media totally blows it on retail sales
lee adler