national briefs

Factories laying off workers, stocks tumbling and shoppers ditching their credit cards forced the economy to contract in June, a trend likely to continue in the second half of 2008, a private business group ...

[old dude]

and as recently as December, when people who know about such things warned it was coming, our government and media said "we won't have a recession..."

riiiiiiight

It's going to be a major economic disaster that we call a depression. The Great Depression of 2008 or 2009. Ready for it?

can you say "crash!"