Shoppers Defy MSM Message That Their Lot Is Miserable

News reports over the weekend highlighted an early and robust beginning to the holiday shopping season, and it wasn't just for the Playstation 3. To confirm the reports, I sent the ever-ravishing Mrs. Baseball out into the stores and malls to conduct some field research into the state of the retail economy as we go into this all-important time of year. Her assessment: Americans are flush and raring to spend (indeed the former is true). Robust traffic at the malls is coupled with oddly high activity at the big discounters, to wit the local Target was hopping with long lines at the registers as of 9pm on a Sunday night.

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