Tracking the Bling Factor

Greetings from the Paris Hilton....(the hotel, of course, not the socialite). We report on day three of our European tour.And the bling factor continues, of sorts. What I mean by bling is that Americans are increasingly spending more for what's called "affordable luxuries", i.e. import and craft beers, and unfortunately by extension, wine and spirits.But looking at the data, much of the US is not behaving this way. While imports and crafts are growing almost everywhere, they are really growing