Isn’t this like saying the plant continues to grow even though it is getting shorter and all the leaves are falling off. Simply because we dream it, doesn’t make it so.

I hope for an economic recovery, but I see 20% plus unemployment in once vibrant southern california, I see record high foodstamp use and every store in the world now accepting them. I see many empty commercial buildings, blocks of them in a row. I know from perusing the web that commercial real estate will collapse this year and home mortgages will continue to reset into unpayable conditions as collapsing values make abandoning property ever more tempting.

I think the simple reality is that the government numbers are manipulated and reported by a compliant corporate press who have no responsibility to report the truth. There is no recovery at this date. Period. The stock market is full of under the table government dollars propping up the illusion, kicking the can down the road, hoping the illusion will become reality.

Time is their enemy and gravity will certainly always win, even in a battle with the Federal Reserves’ printing presses.