AMERICA - With "Black Friday" a mere week away, mobs in most urban areas have already formed outside shopping centers.
With most analysts predicting a "modest" death toll near 8,500 throughout the country, the "Black Week" kicked off early this morning with only 2,344 injuries reported so far.
"We find this an encouraging sign that the economy is recovering," said Jim "James" Jamison III, from the Brookheimer Institute for Consumer Economics at Harvard University. "Whenever consumers risk injury or even death to knock off 20 or 30% from a television or camcorder, it's always a good thing."
Other analysts, however, are reserving judgement. "I think it's far, far too early to tell how this year's holiday sales are going to run, based on a single early mob death projection," cautioned Wilma P. Barnum VI, Senior Shopping Analyst from the Clouseau Policy Think Tank. "The early death projections can be a misleading statistic. Yes, it is a generally good indicator of shopping frenzy and determination -- and thus correlates well with seasonal sales volumes -- but let's not forget the lesson from 9/11. In 2001, the holiday death toll was something like 11,000+, and sales were all but flat-lined. It's still too early to tell if this is anything more than an expression of the populace's extreme paranoia and angst."
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