You misunderstand me. I completely agree with WWW that now is a time for wannabees to be very cautious. What I'm disagreeing with is the certainty that five or six regular posters on this thread have that we're all going to be living on the streets in a year's time. I'm saying that it isn't certain at all and that the economy could still go either way. I don't know it's going to get better in the spring, I'm not even presumptious enough to think it's going to get better in the spring, but I do think it could get better way before Dr Doom and his mates do.
I've said it before. It's easy, when there's an economic trend, to say it's going to continue. It is less easy to spot the turnaround.