It's Wednesday, March 13th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today

from Motley Fool 1, Jason Moser,

and from Motley Fool's Supernova, Matt Argus singer.

Happy Humpty guys.

Happy Humpty indeed. Happy Humpty indeed.

We're going to dig into the fool mailbag.

Actually that's not true because we got to comment on Twitter.

So we're going to dig into the Twitter verse.

The virtual mailbag.

We're going to see what we can do to help out one celebrity who just lost a boatload of money investing in

Wait for it?

Windmills

But we're gonna start with the big story of the day and that is the retail numbers.

The February retail numbers are in kind of made a splash.

Retail sales up 1.1 percent that was much higher Matt than people were expecting. I think the expectation was going to be 0.6%.

Even with the Kowayat that a fair amount of this is due to higher gas prices still some pretty good numbers.

Sure I mean really across the board I mean you do have to you know you count for the gas

prices and autos were strong but this is yeah this is a. I mean, a lot of people were kind of worried

about with the payroll tax sequestration, which kind of hasn't really flowed through yet. You know, the economy's

kind of slow and there was that kind of weird, awkwardly public comment out of Walmart Walmart one of the Walmart executive a month ago

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