Everywhere I look today, I’m seeing the national budget and debt being talked about  in the news. There are about 200,000 monthly searches on Google, with over 49.5 million results for “national debt”.

Under the media’s consistent stories that all is improving; that the worst is over; and things are getting better, there is an undercurrent of unrest.  We want to believe them.  There are signs between the clouds that there are  improvements in some things.  One of the issues has to do with how accurate are the systems in place to really accurately measure things like unemployment or housing sales? At the same time,  Bernanke is getting ready to try QEIII (Quantitative Easing III)  – after all, QE I did not work and it appears that  QE II won’t work either. Three’s the charm??   Read the rest of this entry