In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

– Ecclesiastes 7:24

But where is the top of the hockey stick?

WSJ’s Real Time Economics compiles a list of sobering analyses of the latest employment figures.

The good news: an optomist would point out that at least it can’t go over 100%!

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson,  (Attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)