Oh Say Can’t You See?

market-ticker.org / by Karl Denninger / 2017-04-21

You have to love The Atlantic and their “slant” on alleged “news”:

Brick-and-mortar retail is having a meltdown, and economists are starting to see the effects in the job market.

Overall retail employment has fallen every month this year. Department stores, including Macy’s and JC Penney, have shed nearly 100,000 jobs since October—more than the total number of coal miners or steel workers currently employed in the U.S. Even America’s richest areas are getting hit: Employment in New York City clothing stores has fallen three years in a row, the longest period of decline on record, going back to the early 1990s.

Of course the lamentation is that unlike the coal industry (or manufacturing) there’s been no political promise (empty or otherwise) to do something about this one.

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