Global Turndown?

Latest economic reports reveal a persistent manufacturing slump, reflecting the worst slowdown since the Great Depression.

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From the New York Times:

From Australia, to Asia and Europe and the United States on Wednesday, the message in the latest economic reports was clear: manufacturing continued to slump amid the worst slowdown since the Great Depression.

And yet today, the fickle Dow topped 9,000, but I can't shake the memory of that email from September... Are readers optimistic for 2009?

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