More and more retailers are feeding on a smaller consumer pie, and many are going away hungry, ... What Wall Street Wants from the Retail Industry.

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

The longer this goes on ... the more closely it resembles the inflationary push that we saw in the latter part of the 1960s.

Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out.

He has faced many different kinds of economic environments. He has thrown away any kind of rule of thumb.