tax return time is never a good time for anyone
Only if you have to pay!! $$$ Its just not the sex game its loads of industries, I support a few and loads of guys I speak to are worried daily about loosing their jobs from Global Miners to Banks, and small local businesses' men are worried the tap on the shoulder will happen any day, so they are saving money and not doing other things with the cash, go see a car dealer they all say the same, no one is buying, same as housing look Perth housing dropped again. Its a different economy in 2015 to the boom times of the mining industry, even FIFO workers are worried. A really a man would be silly to spend cash willy nilly just in case their job goes.
Canada may enter a recession, and Australia is much the same as them, a 1 trick pony Mining, with not much else to take up the slack when that slows, and we all know anyone older than 35 knows about the recession we have to have now don't we.....
Go for a walk in Hay street mall at lunch all people are doing are eating, I know a lot of women that work in boutiques in Perth and they are saying its the slowest they have seen in years, women are recycling dresses for events, why do most clothing stores have SALE signs that have dust on them they have been there that long..
The only ones that are spending are the Asians, like you see on King street, and the same deal on Collins street melb and Castlereagh streets in sydney same deal. The economy is slowing and I am only going on what I have been advised and saw at the coal face...