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these are perfectly valid things to ask, and many people certainly have an attitude toward their future consumer spending, ESPECIALLY for the next 2 or 3 months (this is similar to what the monthly Consumer Confidence Index attempts to determine). My god, if you have no idea one way or the other of your short-term purchasing tendencies (and with the holidays coming!) you must live a more chaotic life that most of the respondents.

Is it absolute? Of course not. Is it valuable, on a relative scale? Might it indicate short-term spending trends? Absolutely.

I also own Apple stock (and products) and am confident they'll do well. But if investors like the person above maintain such anti-intellectual, emotionally driven responses -- pro or con -- to the various useful information that comes out, then they will only have themselves to blame if trends overtake them.]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:27:10 -0400
these are perfectly valid things to ask, and many people certainly have an attitude toward their future consumer spending, ESPECIALLY for the next 2 or 3 months (this is similar to what the monthly Consumer Confidence Index attempts to determine). My god, if you have no idea one way or the other of your short-term purchasing tendencies (and with the holidays coming!) you must live a more chaotic life that most of the respondents.

Is it absolute? Of course not. Is it valuable, on a relative scale? Might it indicate short-term spending trends? Absolutely.

I also own Apple stock (and products) and am confident they'll do well. But if investors like the person above maintain such anti-intellectual, emotionally driven responses -- pro or con -- to the various useful information that comes out, then they will only have themselves to blame if trends overtake them.]]>