Consumers Still Unaware of Impending Doom: Target and Kohl's Flatline
• minyanville.com/businessmarketsOur entire consumer society has been built upon a foundation of lies. The biggest being the idea that you could get wealthy without saving; the other being that you were wealthy if you owned stuff that made you look wealthy.
If the nation had stayed on the gold and silver standard, there would not have been such gigantic national growth. But the growth that would have been, would have been so extremely stable and solid that it would have never died.