The Economic Conditions

The front door of a business establishment I recently visited displayed a handwritten sign that announced that they would be open only Thursday through Sunday due to these economic times. I don't know the technical word for this (any logicians out there, help me out!), but I sense that it involves some sort of fallacy. I have been noticing this a lot, what with these economic times and all; assigning blame to a general condition where direct causality can't really be established. True, some small part of the "economic times" may have adversely affected their business, but, really, is it the whole thing? It's kind of like blaming "the weather" when a tornado rips the roof off your house.