The Naked Economy

"Look, the economy has no clothes", we marvel as we watch unemployment grow, watch our life savings evaporate before our eyes, and see crisis after crisis evolve.

"What? " you protest. "Things can't be that bad. Don't we know more than ever about running an economy. Surely this is really just a minor bump and those in charge will fix things! In fact aren't things starting to get better."

Oh yeah, you go on believing that fairy tale and while you're at it buy some swamp land in Florida to retire on. As Abe Lincoln once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Maybe so, but apparently you can fool the people for a long time, long enough it seems to create an economic disaster.

Throw the Rascals out!!

Banks in trouble, high unemployment, poor paying jobs, the housing market in shambles, credit crunches, our infrastructure falling down - the list goes on and on and on. What an economic mess we're in. And I think it is much worse than is reported. Why? Well, let me elaborate: