Did you bother to notice the economy is still shedding jobs?
Hate to burst the bubble of wishful thinking but this quite probably is the high point as we slide into the 2nd part of a W shaped recession.
I suspect, as do many other commenters, that Q4 GDP numbers will be revised down, as have others recently. Q3 state and local sales tax receipts remain strongly down (http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/state_revenue_report/2010-01-07-SRR_78.pdf), and until these figures and others start to show improvement, I'm not ready to join the recovery cheerleading. We all want to see it, but it isn't here yet, and a possible surge in energy prices triggered by continued cold in the northern hemisphere could act as a further drag.