# US Retail Sales and Inventories

By [Jim Bianco @biancoresearch](https://twitter.com/biancoresearch)

"These charts argue otherwise. Frenzied retail sales (orange) are running inventories (blue) to inventory/sales ratios (second chart) never thought possible even a few months ago. The only way this gets solved next month if we crush the economy so bad that all new sales stop."

@chart https://charts.alphacast.io/p/alphacast/usa-macro-basics/activity---usa---business-inventories-to-sales-ratio?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&year=latest&time=1992-01-01..2021-08-01

@chart https://charts.alphacast.io/p/alphacast/usa-macro-basics/activity---usa---retail-sales-and-inventories?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=1992-01-01..2021-08-01&region=World

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">These charts argue otherwise. <br><br>Frenzied retail sales (orange) are running inventories (blue) to inventory/sales ratios (second chart) never thought possible even a few months ago.<br><br>The only way this gets solved next month if we crush the economy so bad that all new sales stop. <a href="https://t.co/k8AyiIw1Bw">https://t.co/k8AyiIw1Bw</a> <a href="https://t.co/NffC3RVZNZ">pic.twitter.com/NffC3RVZNZ</a></p>&mdash; Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth (@biancoresearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1449808912203587589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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