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Twenty Grand for a mattress?

Vi-Spring, a manufacturer from Plymouth, England, opened its first U.S. store in Scottsdale, Ariz., five years ago and is having no trouble selling $10,000 to $24,000 mattresses, mostly by phone, said Roger Magowitz, owner of the Scottsdale store, Bedroom Eyes.

I hereby declare the economic slump a myth. Our economy is well into the conspicuous consumption phase of recovery.

I never did believe that there was much of a recession anyway. Last summer, I was driving through one of Spokane, Washington's least prosperous neighborhoods and passed several stores that specialized in doing nails.

Mike's 39th. law of economics states that, if poor people have enough money to keep pedicurists in business, the economy is just fine.