A news report on the BBC network explained that the “Black” in “Black Friday” referred to the start of the holiday season which enabled merchants to stop losing money (in the “red” since losses in hand written ledgers were designated with red ink) and start making money (thus in the “black”.)
Here we thought “Black Friday” referred to the dangers and frustrations of trying to wait on or be among hordes of shoppers.
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"....I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem." Thomas Paine, Common Sense, on "Financing the War", March 5, 1782
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