Scrooge v Santa
I'm spending Christmas week in Canada, and on my first evening in Toronto I noticed something very different: Christmas decorations. Lots of them.
I'm spending Christmas week in Canada, and on my first evening in Toronto I noticed something very different: Christmas decorations. Lots of them. Everywhere.
No, I'm not launching a Fox News/war on Christmas column. I'm doing some casual economic empiricism: in the US cities I've visited in December 2010, it's my impression that Christmas decoration remains cut way back. This is the 3rd Christmas season in a row that (or so it seems to me) where caution has the upper hand. Yet there is a recovery under way, or so the statistics say. Is the more abstemious Christmas a sign of the new zeal for saving that economic statistics also suggest? Or am I just imagining things? Your comments/observations most welcome...
I'm spending Christmas week in Canada, and on my first evening in Toronto I noticed something very different: Christmas decorations. Lots of them. Everywhere.
No, I'm not launching a Fox News/war on Christmas column. I'm doing some casual economic empiricism: in the US cities I've visited in December 2010, it's my impression that Christmas decoration remains cut way back. This is the 3rd Christmas season in a row that (or so it seems to me) where caution has the upper hand. Yet there is a recovery under way, or so the statistics say. Is the more abstemious Christmas a sign of the new zeal for saving that economic statistics also suggest? Or am I just imagining things? Your comments / observations most welcome...