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Is early holiday advertising a recession indicator?

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Halina Bennet
Oct 30, 2025
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If you’re also watching the World Series (this is the first time I’ve watched cable television with advertisements in a while), you might have seen a few companies already promoting holiday shopping. It’s not even Halloween yet. I don’t know if this early advertising is atypical, and I am not going to run an analysis of that for this discussion post, bu…

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