Voice, tonight your Holiday Spending a Record Number of shoppers flooded stores on thanksgiving, retailers posted weakest holiday sales since before the recession, thanksgiving and black friday sales combined rising a little over 2 . Weekend sales were down 3 , cyber monday is underway, many of the major online retailers are extending todays deals over the week. Are they worth it . With me now, author of upcoming book, its worse than you think, the u. S. Economy and th the dece of the middle class. And trey, welcome. Chris, i dont remember sales going down, a big deal, what do you make of it . I wish i could make better news of it. We have record unemployment. We have zero wage growth. We have 48 million people, americans on food stamps, last time i hecked santa does not take ebt. It snow surprise this sale it is no surprise that sales were down. Shopper spent how much is that . Per family . 423 down from 423 in 2012. I think this question requires maybe a big picture approach, Holiday
Voice, tonight your Holiday Spending a Record Number of shoppers flooded stores on thanksgiving, retailers posted weakest holiday sales since before the recession, thanksgiving and black friday sales combined rising a little over 2 . Weekend sales were down 3 , cyber monday is underway, many of the major online retailers are extending todays deals over the week. Are they worth it . With me now, author of upcoming book, its worse than you think, the u. S. Economy and th the dece of the middle class. And trey, welcome. Chris, i dont remember sales going down, a big deal, what do you make of it . I wish i could make better news of it. We have record unemployment. We have zero wage growth. We have 48 million people, americans on food stamps, last time i hecked santa does not take ebt. It snow surprise this sale it is no surprise that sales were down. Shopper spent how much is that . Per family . 423 down from 423 in 2012. I think this question requires maybe a big picture approach, Holiday
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Those go hi good to see you again. Tell us why he wrote this book. Guest as they say in the acknowledgments a reporter from the New York Times called me up when she was switched over from Foreign Affairs to Public Health and i talked to her about the American Health care system and explained to her the American Health care system and she wanted to know if we could meet for tea. I thought thats a bit ridiculous. You cant explain the Health Care System and an hour. When it be nice if there were 250 page book i could give to someone and that would explain the system. When a lookout there there is no such book and i always figure if youre a tenured or Faster Health policy person its beneath you to write a book explaining the system and if you arent untenured trying to get tenure you figure if you read this book you will never get tenure because the tenured peeper people will. Once i got into writing the book i began to think it sets the platform for whats going to happen. Why dont i start
I walked by shelly and were in washington last week. I walked by the hoover building and thought what a disgrace that the name is up there. What with know about the guy he was one of the most corrupt government officials in the history of the republican. And his name is still on the building. His etho is still in the building. Thats why all we talk about whitey gull we are bsh bulger. On that cheery note. [laughter] i would like to thank you for coming out. I would like to thank shelley murphy, kevin. The book is whitey if we turn away from others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. What happened to join to take advantage of it. Obesity is nothing short of a Public Health crisis. There so much into it. I think they serve as a window on the past it was going on with american women. She becomes the chief compromise. Many of the women who were first ladies, they were writers. A lot of them were writers, journalists. They wrote books. They are mor