world wide recession.

I know that by the strict definition we are not there yet... but trust me folks, we are there.

The canaries in the mine have been chirping STRONGLY for the last six months at least and if you go to any retailer these days you will see the signs, clearly.

So the next question is...

Well, is the Pope Catholic?

But, now that we have the big honchos ACTUALLY mentioning the R word in statements, it means things are probably worst than MOST suspect

By the way, we Casandras are far from surprised since we have been singing this song for a while and we just hope to be wrong on how deep this will be