[Rostov]

So the dow closed today OVER 9000 points up 936 from Friday.

i saw that today and it really brought me a lot of relief.

granted, it could just be a few "big-time" investors trying to single handedly instill confidence into the market.. a similar event happened before the final "fatal" crash in 1930's

Economics is a nasty, complicated subject, but by its dizzying nature, a recovery COULD ALREADY be underway IN SOME PARTS of the economy. You see, the housing market started to drop some 15 months ago. The housing market may still need to bottom out, but then it will climb upwards. This event would largely unnoticed in the media since they'll be busy focusing on all the bad news from the financial sector/Wall St. Alluding to the economic cycle earlier, while the economy moves together in general terms, some parts of the economy will start to rise/fall at different times.(usually within 6-8 months of each other). I'm not saying recovery has started. Usually the economy has begun recovery and has been recovering for some time before the public/media starts to notice.

phew! Enough complicated rubbish. Let's move on to something softer....