On Friday’s its always consider the headlines

In a consumer-driven economy like the United States, mass psychology is a factor. This weekend, there will be a barrage of stories about ‘the worst jobs report in a year’ and ‘world growth under threat as US sputters‘

Headlines like those make people think twice about heading to the shopping mall and it becomes a negative feedback loop:

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…I always had my suspicions about the Green Lantern.