Tweet [1]
Buy American! [2] Waste resources! Save some jobs while destroying others and in the process make us poorer!
Slaughter Pigs Destroy Car [3]s to Help the Car Industry! Waste resources! Save some jobs while destroying others and in the process make us poorer! (scroll down to Cash for Clunkers. HT: Greg Bain)
You deserve a do-over [4] today.
And another [5].
Any one of these would be a bad sign. All four in the same day? As each legislator and Congressional committee and the Fed and the President try to help improve the economy (or bail out a favored constituency) the stress on the whole system grows. Every once in a while I think we can come out of this mess. On a day like today, I start to think we're going to have a profound economic collapse.