Man, we're in this well for the long run, the pundits and the media are now pushing the views that this whole mess wil be over with by the third quarter of 2010..WRONGO, BUCKOS, case in point they said layoffs are slowing? OF COURSE< How much can you gut a company and fire employees ? Alot of smal biz in our area are on a skeleton staff and one company fired all it's salaried salesman, made 'em turnin their cars and hired commision kids that will use their own cars......Naw, not a predictor of DOOM and Gloom, it took well over a decade to get into this mess and no amount of governemnet and media spin will change our views otherwise. And Hyper-Inflation, when will thatrear it's UGLY HEAD?????