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The Well, Aaron, you'll be happy to know that consumer confidence and consumer power also too at an all-time high.

Is that so?

Yeah, I don't know if you've perhaps seen the latest news.

The numbers coming in from Black Friday, but they tell a story, my friend.

And the story is that things have never been better.

They tell a retail.

They retell a story that, you know, just speaks to how good things are going.

The breakdown of the Black Friday data comes in.

This is from Adam Cochran on Twitter who notes that there was a 9.1% increase

spend from last year.

So that's good.

That's good news.

Okay.

Here's the, here's where, you know, some of the doomsayers are saying it's bad, me.

I kind of take it as a good sign that we're going to be financing our lunch through Klarna soon.

95% of the sales volume was financed on Black Friday.

And of that 95% roughly $1 billion was spent using BNPL, which I had to ask my economist friends what

that meant.

But it's just a shorthand for buy now, pay later.

And...

Can I ask the obvious question is in these plans, I'm assuming that there's a there's an exorbitant amount of

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