[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'W')hat's next ?

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '.')...
If this is peak oil, let's have more of it.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

[CarlosFerreira]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ':')cry: Whats next?? The big banks continuing to be as responsible and wise as they have been to date, cut back credit lines on consumer credit cards to all but those with gold plated credit at the same time they raise rates on the balance already owed. This converts the US over night to a Cash as you go basis and consumers respond by cutting back family spending by twenty five percent or more virtually halting all dicretionary spending thus contracting the economy by twelve percent.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarlosFerreira', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ':')cry: Whats next?? .

[emeraldg40]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ccessing their retirement funds "should be at the bottom of the list," said Craig Averill, personal retirement solutions executive at Bank of America."They need to be cognizant of what this decision means."

[sirrom]

Critical mass cyclists decided to cut through a shopping mall on their monthly bike ride: YouTube

Converted [url] to hyperlink.-FL

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Wow that's a huge freaking mall! I dont' think I've ever seen that many stores liked up in a strip mall arrangement like that before.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'W')ow that's a huge freaking mall! I dont' think I've ever seen that many stores liked up in a strip mall arrangement like that before.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

WOW! Well that answers a few questions. It would be really hard to walk through there and not pull out a Visa card! The cheesecake store would be my first stop....pretty horse too, carriage ride anyone?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's the Mall/Strip/Power Center/Faux Town hybrid. Looks similar to Easton Town Center in Columbus.

[Ayoob]

Wow, that's fucking AMAZING! It's going to change everything! Everybody at Critical Mass is a hero!

[Rogozhin]

That was silly.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's the Mall/Strip/Power Center/Faux Town hybrid. Looks similar to Easton Town Center in Columbus.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', 'C')ritical mass cyclists decided to cut through a shopping mall on their monthly bike ride: YouTube

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', 'C')ritical mass cyclists decided to cut through a shopping mall on their monthly bike ride: YouTube

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')etail maven Howard Davidowitz paid another visit to Tech Ticker this week. And despite signs of improvement in consumer confidence and retail stocks rising, Davidowitz is steadfast in his belief the consumer is dead. Rather than summarize, let me just highlight some of his best one-liners:
On retail:
"The retail business is terrible... It's almost all negative."
"We're going to close hundreds of thousands of stores."
On the consumer:
"They’re still over leveraged, they're losing jobs, their credit has been cut back."
On America:
"We are in the tank forever. As a country we are out of control, we're in a death spiral."
On the stock market:
"We're in terrible shape. That's what the fundamentals tell me. I can't explain the stock market."

But it's not all gloom and doom, believe it or not. Davidowitz, who runs a retail consulting firm Davidowitz and Associates, thinks certain discount retailers, grocers, drug store chains and a select few department stores can survive and prosper in the future. Most notably he likes the "extreme discounters" like Family Dollar, Dollar Tree (which was up almost 5% Tuesday after the company raised its outlook) and 99 Cents Only Stores. And, in the department store sector, he says, Kohl's will "be the only winner" because of their cost controls.

[Daniel_Plainview]

The shining star of American retail:

[Plantagenet]

What happened to the green shoots?

[BigTex]

Watch all three of his clips on Yahoo Finance.

Those three clips summarize in about 12 minutes what it takes me about three hours to explain to someone (and that dude is WAY more entertaining).

[Dvanharn]

With Chase and others raising credit card interest rates from under 8% to 19.9% for people with perfect payment records, Wall Street may be committing suicide.