[byEngineer]

No, this includes everything. Houses and cars specifically. These aren't retail. The data is true no matter how you slice it and as I said it is about all the money spent in the economy including big ticket items like houses and cars, not just retail as you falsely suggest.

If you are interested in data also check how many percent car purchases are done because wife wanted them. Cars salesmen in their training are specifically told that a guy showing up without wife isn't serious about the purchase. They will always tell you to come back with wife. Because she is the one telling the guy to pull the trigger. You just pull the trigger. But you won't do it without her approval. The same with house.

[icebraining]

I said nothing about retail.

[byEngineer]

And then you said about business not cosnumer. So to get your semantics confusion straight: you say that if you know that 70% of your cars are effectively bought on the consumer market because women like them -- it has no impact on your business purchasing decisions? Really? The same with housing.

And how is it? Complain that you don't make enough money when you already spent 70% of it? On the consumer market. Because in your world where 70% of money is spent on the consumer market has no impact what-so-ever on how the businesses spent their money or how they invest.

Don't pretend to be too dumb, some may believe it.