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"Wall Street closes strong; Dow up 179 points. Surprisingly upbeat report on housing starts fuels markets." The effects of joblessness are just starting to ripple through the economy, all indications are for a long, hard year or two, P/E ratios are crappy, and some transitory good news on housing starts causes the entire stock market to rise. It seems like telling a bunch of 5 year olds they are getting a cookie for lunch. They go berzerk, cheering, happy as can be. At that point they neither know nor care that's all there is for lunch, and there's no dinner. Or breakfast. Oh, goody goody goody! A cookie!!! Who needs dinner? Arf
