These retail names are on our Best Stocks list as the holiday season begins

(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — Happy Thanksgiving, how bout them Cowboys? If I had a nickel for every time I was told about the trials and tribulations of the U.S. consumer, well, I'd be wealthier than an Larry Ellison. "The consumer is struggling, the consumer is tapped out, the consumer is on its last legs, the consumer is running on fumes, the consumer this and the consumer that." Lamenting the state of the consumer is almost a daily refrain in the media these days, stemming from a very basic misconception I can clear up right now: There is no such thing as "the consumer." Perhaps there used to be a protypical, stereotypical, homogenized hypostatization of "the consumer" that made sense in the 1