Newsflash: American Economy Sucks

Whenever your currency is within a few cents of the Canadian dollar you know your GDP growth is remedial at best. As in 'it does not read well'.

As 2009 comes to a close, the rising tide of unemployment is flooding the basement. From coast to coast half finished houses are rotting, visited by contractors only late at night while they empty liquor bottles or weep behind the steering wheel of a $750/month truck payment.

Oil is only low for the moment because even China has taken a shot to the gut. The second they turn the lights back on over there we all know gas prices are going European for all of us (joy!) and even the most tightly belted of us will feel like their pants are sitting on their ankles. Why us? What did we ever do to deserve this? Well hmmm.