<p>Funny to look back on this thread a year and a half after the original posts. I find especially laughable the comments about how “the economy isn’t bad right now. its only the financials that are suffering”. Yeah, I can see how that panned out over the longer term as capital goods companies tanked in gigantic numbers–and, of course, we all know the fate of Lehman Brothers (now out of business)–and other mortgage companies such as Countrywide Home Loan (now taken over by Bank of America).</p>