The past decade, which allowed the Bush Administration, American corporations and the great financial giants to turn the country into a dispeptic ulcer, which was mostly Bush and some Obama administered, has left us in a slump. It has taken so much energy to try and turn things around that we wonder if we can summon up more just to keep going.

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Frank Rich hits it out of the park in his column in this Sunday's New York Times. His own observations, combined with references to the under-acknowledged prescience of Nouriel Roubini and the steeped-in-history thinking of Richard Florida, are nothing short of spot-on poignancy in:  "What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us ."

I can't tell you how many times and how many ways I've tried (and somewhat failed) on these blogs to communicate what Rich so eloquently succeeds at today, but it is gospel, at least to me. So, with Mr. Rich's wonderful template in today's NY Times, here goes...

As Rich so concisely tells us, the truth is, it's not what we don't know, it's: "Do we really want to know?"

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I'm no less than completely disgusted with regard to a story that's running late today on Bloomberg Media entitled: "Fed Says Most U.S. Banks Tightened Terms on Loans."

The truth is this is a major issue at the heart of what's wrong with the U.S. economy right now.

(Blogger's Note: I'm apologizing in advance on this one...because it is somewhat of a rant...but I need to vent!)

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Do we really need snark when we have this in real life?

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Definitely one of my most favorite diary headlines...evah!

"Industry, citing limp economy, seeks its own US bailout."

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Two porn moguls including Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt are seeking a five-billion-dollar bailout from Washington, arguing that the limp US economy has thrown cold water on the adult entertainment industry.

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"To-morrow and to-morrow, and to-morrow..."

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is the beginning of the third sentence of one of the most famous soliloquies in Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. It is the response of the protagonist, Macbeth, to the news of his wife's death. The speech can be divided into two parts, with the line "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" marking the beginning of the second part. The full soliloquy reads:

"She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing." -- Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)

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