Does anyone care?

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Amen brother, I've had a bad feeling about this one since it popped up a couple of days ago. Could the timing be worse? Every fund manager out there just needs a tiny excuse to withdraw from stocks and call it a very good year, so the market is probably heading down. Why people pay attention to stocks as if they're a gauge of the economy I don't know, but people do. That's not going to help the xmas shopping season.

So the double dip recession the experts have been talking about might come to pass after all, and the fact that the conservatives have succeeded in making everyone deficit nervous means that a second stimulus bill is going to be a hard sell.

I hope my gut is lying to me.