The American Consumer: For One Brief Shinning Moment.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;">It's been an incredible week. Once again we've seen all time highs in the major equity averages. Although the novelty of that's may have worn off.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;">We saw a couple of outstanding quarterly earnings reports from Apple Computer and from Amazon.</p>