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Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Friday, October 30, 2009

Consumer Spending

We should stop worrying about consumer spending as a bellwether of the long term economy. We spend less because we all realized that our debt driven lifestyles in the middle class were not sustainable. We need to get back to worrying about big things like trade balance, GDP, per person productivity, metrics that mean we're doing work.
There's profit in labor, not just consumption.