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Real retail sales

The user wants an encyclopedia-style article about "Real retail sales". I need to define the term, provide historical context, explain its calculation and interpretation, offer examples, discuss applications, and outline limitations. I also need to compare it to a related term and answer FAQs.

Crucially, I must build a LINK_POOL with 15 unique internal links and 4 real, live, and readable external links from at least 3 different trusted domains.

Let's break down the LINK_POOL creation and then the article structure.

STEP 1 - BUILD SILENT LINK_POOL

Internal Links (15 unique terms from finance that could exist on Diversification.com):

  1. economic indicator
  2. consumer spending
  3. inflation
  4. gross domestic product
  5. monetary policy
  6. deflation
  7. purchasing power
  8. economic growth
  9. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  10. Consumer Price Index
  11. seasonal adjustment
  12. disposable income
  13. interest rates
  14. market volatility
  15. economic data

External Links (4 real, live, and readable from at least 3 trusted domains):

  1. U.S. Census Bureau Monthly Retail Trade Report: This is the primary source for retail sales data.
    • URL: https://www.census.gov/retail/index.html (verified to be live and relevant, leads to the main retail trade page)
  2. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data: Relevant for understanding how inflation is measured for deflating retail sales.
    • URL: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-spending/personal-consumption-expenditures (verified to be live and relevant)
  3. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Provides anecdotal information on economic conditions, including retail sales.
    • URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beigebook/default.htm (verified to be live and relevant)
  4. Academic Paper on Economic Indicators and Sales (Forum Scientiae Oeconomia): This can be used for limitations or interpretation.
    • URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366533083_At_what_lag_should_economic_indicators_be_applied_to_predict_sales_in_a_transformed_economy_Is_it_worthwhile_when_e-tailing (verified to be live and readable, specifically the DOI version https://doi.org/10.23762/FSO_VOL10_NO4_2 from the search results is better to link to the paper directly)

Now, I will construct the article.

Auto-infer:

  • [TERM] = Real retail sales
  • [RELATED_TERM] = Nominal retail sales
  • [TERM_CATEGORY] = Macroeconomics

Let's begin writing the article.12, 34, 56, 7891011, 121314, 1516, 1718, [19](https://www.b[21](https://www.census.gov/retail/sales.html), 22, 23ea.gov/data/consumer-spending/main), 20