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GDP Grows, Consumer Spending Plummets on the Eve of the Holiday Season

Today’s podcast focuses on the fallout in the wake of yesterday’s GDP number, the reports this morning of the fall in Consumer Spending, and what the holiday shopping season could bring — for good and for ill — to the American economy.

Is the New Frugal Consumer a Myth, or Real?

One of today’s Daily Reads was a piece at the New Yorker by James Surowiecki on the changing nature of the American consumer.

- November 21, 2009 -

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