As he was starting his literary career, Charles Dickens was a journalist. Alas, he was not a business reporter — that would have been too appropriate for the son of a debtors’ prison inmate.
Yet, Dickens would appreciate the plot developing for the American consumer as the holiday spending season begins in the week ahead.
Choose your favorite Dicksenian novel. It likely is an apt theme for the weeks ahead for shoppers, investors and the economy.
