It seems like the past year has been nothing but a series of news reports with the following format:
1.) Reporter states that economic crisis is the most horrible thing to ever happen.
2.) An expert declares with expert confidence: "I have a perfectly reasonable-sounding theory for this economic crisis and how to get out of it."
3.) Another expert declares expertly: "My perfectly reasonable-sounding theory is in direct contradiction with the previous perfectly reasonable-sounding theory which is just a horrible waste of money. Unless it isn’t."
I’m sick and tired of this supposed downturn in the economy and I’m ready for it to return to normal exactly the way it always does after everyone finishes frothing at the mouth. I just wish that the economic experts could admit that the only thing we really know about the economy is that the good times come and go, just like the bad.
Oh, and we also know that bank executives are as stupid as business majors always have been, and they shouldn’t be trusted with a used kleenex, let alone the entire economy.
Down at the bakery, where we’re busy putting together the guns and butter, business is puttering along pretty much as it always has. Apparently there are nightly news reports that instruct people to stop buying coffee and pastries to save money. If you’re not actually employed, that would probably be a good idea, but otherwise it seems like weird advice. Luckily most of the bakery customers aren’t doing what the panicky people in their TV tell them.
