About that Retail Sales Plunge in the Headlines: A Romp through the Massive Seasonal Adjustments this Time of the Year

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Retail sales in January were actually up by 4.8% year-over-year.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
You read the headlines today: Retail sales, seasonally adjusted, fell by 0.9% in January from December. Winter storms, fires, the consumer collapsed, whatever. But what we’re actually…

This story appeared on wolfstreet.com, 2025-02-14 20:13:28.
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