Economy in the dumps? Not for GameStop
The uncertainty that confronts consumers and investors in the U.S. is staggering. There’s the price of gasoline, which creeps higher almost daily; a housing market that month after month gets gloomier and gloomier; and the conflict in Iraq that has cost the U.S. an estimated $3 trillion.
Is it any wonder that the Consumer Confidence Index–maybe the most telling measure of how rank-and-file consumers view their economic health both present and future–is at a five-year low?
