Retail sales went south in March. (bookgrl/FLICKR)
BY DEB WEINSTEIN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
The latest news from the Department of Commerce is a mix of the bad and the good.
The bad: March threw a wrench in what some had hoped was a sign of a consumer upswing — [...]
By JASON M. BRESLOW – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Despite more than $91 billion in economic stimulus payments distributed this past spring, U.S. retail sales fell 0.1 percent in July due in part to slumping demand for motor vehicles, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
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