Legal Commentary

A Note About the Economy

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

I went down to my favorite furniture store, Woodworks, this weekend to get a couple extra shelves for one of the many, many bookcases I’ve bought from there over the years.

And I was chatting with one of the owners, or maybe he is the owner, I’m not sure, and I commented on the fact that the store seemed pretty busy despite the recession — I’d had to wait a while while he wrote up the sale of a complicated, somewhat expensive, custom piece to an older couple. No, he said, business was down by a third over last year. And this is for a store that has good prices on decent quality stuff that tends to last.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 25, 2008 (boomark / email).