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Yikes.<\/p>\n

It’s not quite as dire as it seems — a lot of the maneuver seems to be to reorganize debt from multiple investors, in time to stock up for holiday toy sales. But it’s yet another sign of deep weakness in the US retail sector, an aspect of the economy that doesn’t get mentioned as much as it should.<\/p>\n


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\nToys R Us could file for bankruptcy as soon as this week, sources say<\/a><\/span>
\nThe potential bankruptcy comes ahead of the crucial holiday season, when the retailer does the majority of its sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Yikes. It’s not quite as dire as it seems — a lot of the maneuver seems to be to reorganize debt from multiple investors, in time to stock up for holiday toy sales. But it’s yet another sign of deep weakness in the US retail sector, an aspect of the economy that doesn’t get mentioned … Continue reading “Toys R Us is expected to file for bankruptcy this week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49951,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/improving-entrepreneurship-by-improving-social-welfare.html","url_meta":{"origin":134747,"position":0},"title":"Improving entrepreneurship by … improving social welfare?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Mar-15 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In summary, some new analysis demonstrates that when people know that there's a social safety net there to catch them if their attempt to start a new business fails, people start more new businesses. 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