[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[To Hell With Poverty]

Looking at Billboard No. 1 songs from 1955 to 2003 for a study to be published in the journal Psychology of Music, he found that in uncertain times, people tend to prefer songs that are longer, slower, with more meaningful themes.

Dust in the wind....all we are is dust in the wind....

[norton]

I thought this part was of interest, considering the genesis of the housing / lending / default crisis and congress' frantic effort to pile money into it:
"Mr. Conley, too, harked back to the Great Depression in suggesting that the current downturn could lead to a more equal America, if the richest people suffer the greatest economic losses."

[Nathan Zachary]

If there is one good thing to come out of a severe, prolonged depression, it will be seeing all these economists, “scientists”, psychologists who make a living sucking grants from the government teat to do these stupid studies- unemployed.