{"id":47736,"date":"2009-11-24T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-poor-freezing-americans-will-buy-lots-of-sweaters-for-christmas-this-year-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:48:00","slug":"goldman-poor-freezing-americans-will-buy-lots-of-sweaters-for-christmas-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47736","title":{"rendered":"Goldman: Poor, Freezing Americans Will Buy Lots Of Sweaters For Christmas This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b0bf1be00000000005da1ff\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sweater\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs has identified the perfect gift for our poor, cold times. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/marketbeat\/2009\/11\/23\/goldman-on-holidays-americans-about-to-receive-a-lot-of-sweaters\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fmarketbeat%2Ffeed+(WSJ.com%3A+MarketBeat+Blog)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Deal Journal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;&ldquo;For years, the gift-giving excitement focused on consumer electronics innovation; this year, we could see more sweaters under the tree, given (1) healthy pent-up demand after three years of weak apparel sales, (2) sharper price pointing makes for a compelling gift alternative, and (3) a more muted consumer electronics product cycle providing less crowding out [of apparel.]&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>(Picture via Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/liz\/\">mamamusings<\/a>)<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-poor-freezing-americans-will-buy-lots-of-sweaters-for-christmas-this-year-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-years-black-friday-turnout-to-rise-16-2009-11\">Black Friday Will Be Insanely Scary And Busy This Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/redbook-sales-index-grows-20-in-second-week-of-november-2009-11\">Retail Sales Already HOT In November<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/deutsche-bank-retail-is-on-the-rebound-2009-11\">Retail Is So Hot, People Are Even Buying Under Armour Again (DKS)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sachs has identified the perfect gift for our poor, cold times. (via Deal Journal) &nbsp;&ldquo;For years, the gift-giving excitement focused on consumer electronics innovation; this year, we could see more sweaters under the tree, given (1) healthy pent-up demand after three years of weak apparel sales, (2) sharper price pointing makes for a compelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}