Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The tourists are coming! And spending

Well I guess that the falling value of the dollar is good for something: it's made lots of foreign visitors want to come and spend money here.

As the Times reported yesterday, 46 million people visited our fair city in 2007 and injected $28 billion into our economic bloodstream - or roughly half of Bill Gates' net worth. If only Bill would come here and go on a spending spree ...

Manhattan: City Reports Record Number of Visitors

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