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Personal Finance Daily: Consumers shift into down-cycle spending mode - Read More

Date Added: June 14, 2008 09:16:02 AM
When you saw how well retail sales held up last month, you might have been tempted to think American consumers had fallen back into their free-spending ways. But if you look beyond the headline number to see just what it is folks are buying, you’ll find that spending patterns are changing.

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