U.S. retail sales surge as economy gains strength

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The recession is over, and come ON IN !!! The market is fine!!!

I think this is a ploy to get the people's confidence back in the market, so they can get sheered again. They let it grow a little, and then sheer 'em.

As someone said below, "If Ben said it, it must be true.'

BTW, Bernanke looks like he's got a case of the red nose. A sign of hard drinking. Bush had the same look on 9/11 when he was reading with the children. Just a thought.

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every week I go to work in Boston, Cambridge, predominantly at MIT, and every week I hear about this electrical contractor, or that general contractor, or any organization, who layed off people that week.

How in the world can the recession be over, when nobody has any jobs.

I work in construction, and am so happy that MIT had 3 buildings coming out of the ground when the recession hit. They decided to to ahead and finish the buildings (best decision), but after that, there isn't anything.

And New England has been spared the worst of it compared to Cali, Florida, or the Motor City area.

We are going into a great depression, make no bones about it.

Everyday we get bad news, but the stock market still goes up?

Everyday people are laid off, with no prospects of finding a comparable job.

How in the world are we going to have a jobless recovery?

It ain't gonna happen.

Isn't it wonderful that Wall Street is doing so well after the bailouts, when Main Street is burning in crime, unemployment and despair.

I hope everyone here has prepared, because the storm is a comin.

How quickly will people forget cash for clunkers? It makes the statistics look good, regardless of the reality. when the statistics come out post- "clunkers", people will see that the economy isn't as rosy.

back to school spike, I guess now it is going to be pushed as some sort of confidence in the economy. How can things be better if the same problems are present?

Sorry guys, I had to buy some winter work clothes, and I dumped a fortune into my local hardware store.

Don't get any false hopes built up about this, though. I'm a real penny pincher.

(How was copper wire invented? Two Scotsman were trying to pinch the same penny.)

"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me

increase in retail sales? There have been other previous predictions that August, being a back-to-school buying period, would likely show some kind of relative boost in retail sales. Not exactly what I'd call the statistical lynch pin of long-term growth indicators, but then I'm not trying to convince the world that my policy of quantitative easing is the economic salvation of the western world either.

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it must be true.