And if we have a real recession the yahoos will eat it up like ice cream!

I don't think a correction is any more than a short term problem. In the long term I see a better economy..I am counting on Democrats winning in 2016 as we always do better when they do.

I've been invested in the market since 1982 and survived all the down turns with out panic and my investments have always come back better and growing in the long term.

Those that sell on fear, sell low and then end up buying back in when the market has gone up.

supporting the Democratic party.

On the other hand, my investment have come back stronger than before that crash.

Timing-wise it's dead on. I had too much healthcare per diem work in early summer, then after they totally fried me with 5 12-hour shifts an hour from home within 7 days, I settled into my normal summer schedule.

With 2 people scheduled to retire at the end of this year, and a 3rd that could retire at any time, I had every reason to believe the job was relatively safe. I had bailed them out of not one, but two, emergencies in a row. I have been regularly scheduled and very reliable for 4 years. Instead, they hired 1 1/2 people in advance and at the end of August cut my hours to zero without any warning whatsoever.

The lab manager told me that she would tell all of the techs to call me first if they needed to call-out for any reason.

I learned from the 2nd shift tech last week that instead of telling them to call me first, she denied multiple requests.

In the meantime, the lab scheduler sent me emails early in Sept and Oct saying she has "several days" for me that month. Instead, I get a single day -- the minimum required by the lab chain to maintain per diem status. She's already trying to pull the same shit with November and even December.

Each of these false hopes and subsequent blows has been like rubbing salt in the wound they inflicted, depleting my energy and derailing my personal plans.

In November, the sole day they gave me was Thanksgiving. I told them I'm not available in November.

I am very unhappily working the October day I agreed to later today. I may relent and agree to work Thanksgiving, on the condition that they cease all "false hope" statements and emails. It depends on how much of my latest round of outrage at the blatant lies has subsided.

'Democrats winning in 2016' requires more than the White House, we need Congress (as well as State houses and governorships,) without which another Dem in the WH won't mean, much, imo.

I appreciate your optimism.

Just some fancy manipulation has gone on to make stats look better than they really are.