Akst: The blues on Black Friday
There’s freedom in knowing nobody is reading today’s column. I might not even spell-check.
You’re not reading this (closely, anyway) because you’re either nursing a wicked L-tryptophan hangover or are steeling yourself for the annual, extreme bloodsport event we call Black Friday.
Black Friday’s origin is misleading. People think it means profitability, a reference to the age-old accounting practice of recording profits in black and losses in red.
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