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I’ll level with ya. I’m bored to freaking tears with this market. Just absolutely stone cold bored. So I’m focused on product development.
But, the show must go on, so here are some important retail charts whose earnings came out pre-market……….Home Depot, as always, just keeps climbing to infinity, as it has done for decades:
If you want to see the shutdown in a single chart, here it is: the retail sales of clothing on a monthly basis over the past thirty years. Here’s a fun game: try to spot when the economy closed. Please note that the nearly vertical line at the right side of the graph is not part of the chart grid.
The completely vapid waste of time and money engaging in an activity to try to desperately purchase a few moments of happiness through material acquisition in opposition to one’s otherwise bankrupt life is soon to be going very much out of style.
This is just a sampling of the kind of damage done recently. I have gathered up some charts into specific sectors.
