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WhoSpends.com draws information on consumer spending from multiple sources including original research as well as research published in the general, trade and academic press.

Facts, however impeccable their source, do not bear their interpretation on their face. Articles posted in WhoSpends.com are interpretations of available facts.

Leo J. Shapiro, publisher of WhoSpends.com holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, spent seven years conducting research in the federal government (Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Agricultural Economics); led the market research and development company he founded with George Rosenbaum for over fifty years.

During his career, Shapiro has served as advisor to managers of business, government, religious groups and not-for profit enterprises that seek a competitive advantage by learning something that remains hidden to their competitors.

WhoSpends.com summarizes the assumptions that govern research in progress. Shapiro has been around long enough to be wary about the judgments he makes and the judgments made by others.

In providing free access to WhoSpends.com, Shapiro is calling for critical review as well as requesting users of his site to improve the site’s facts and interpretations of facts.

To help make WhoSpends.com the site you want to turn to first, send it facts pertinent to consumer spending which you feel have not been taking into account and challenge its logic in interpretation of fact.

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