{"id":199037,"date":"2007-09-17T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/17\/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-forecast-in-august\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T02:24:00","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-forecast-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/17\/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-forecast-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Retail Sales Rise Less Than Forecast in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is more to this story than what you might read in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a91V64SHMy4o&amp;refer=home\">this Bloomberg article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, a number of states, including Florida, have pushed their back-to-school sales tax holidays into August this year, and a number of other states, Oklahoma comes to mind, have introduced ack-to-school sales tax holidays in August, and the retail was still sluggish.<\/p>\n<p>The recession has started, and we are like the headless chicken, still running around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more to this story than what you might read in this Bloomberg article. Specifically, a number of states, including Florida, have pushed their back-to-school sales tax holidays into August this year, and a number of other states, Oklahoma comes to mind, have introduced ack-to-school sales tax holidays in August, and the retail was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}