[Kimon]

Has recently imploded, Wall Street is in the shitter. Lehman brothers (a firm that survived the Great Depression) just filed for bankruptcy this weekend, and Merrill-Lynch was purchased up by Bank of America. The remaining firms are suffering as well, Dow Jones dropped 504 points a few days ago. There's tens of thousands of jobs lost in New York City alone, and a bunch of others across the nation.

So um, the US economic depression everybody was expecting seems to be happening, which is actually kinda scary.

WILL THE EUROPEANS, AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS PLEASE SHOWER ME WITH APATHETIC RESPONSES