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forward slash free. All right there, James. What's five seconds?

All right, stop the clock right there, James.

What's five seconds? Well, five seconds for me is about the time it takes to check

my emails in the morning or tie my shoes. But what is five seconds to the US consumer?

In five seconds a US consumer has spent $60,000 online and another $500,000 offline.

Now that's equivalent to 150,000 cups of coffee in let's say a thousand

iPhones or even 5,600 pairs of sneakers all in five seconds. So why is this important you ask? Well think about what that means in an hour, a day or even a year.

The US consumer is the US economy.

Well, 70% of it that is.

Now if the US consumer stops spending,

the US economy stops working.

And if the US economy stops and breaks, the global economy goes with it.

So let's get back to the shoppers.

Because if you know how to understand and really predict what they are going to do next, you can get a leg up on where the global economy is headed.

This week, we get to hear from a woman who is one of the world's top macro thinkers

and whose warnings about the deteriorating U.S.

consumer retail and auto sectors a year ago are all coming to fruition.

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