Initial accounts of overall retail sales on Black Friday were positive, with ShopperTrak estimating that sales were up 6.6 percent, setting a new record total and recording the strongest year-over-year gain since 2007. On Small Business Saturday, the Obama family went shopping at Kramerbooks on Dupont Circle, reportedly buying The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, Tails, The Tiger’s Wife, The Phantom Tollbooth, Zen Shorts, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Descent into Chaos: the United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. For Cyber Monday, Open […]