| Wolf, measuring economic health mainly by the stock market and/or the deficit is myopic. People or companies that own significant stock are a small minority of the US population.
The real economic indicators for the average Joe-on-the-street are wage & employment levels vs. cost-of-living, as well as bankruptcy and housing foreclosures, lack of health care, etc. That's where the rubber meets the road for everyone I know.
Of course, I haven't hung out with Bill Gates or George Soros or Oprah or Alan Greenspan lately...
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