[Lucky9teen]

the fragile U.S. economy, which is making a slow and painful recovery from the 2007-2009 downturn, with a 9 percent unemployment rate.

I'm sorry, but I don't see any recovery from this. In fact, I see worse off than this. I am SOOO sick of being told by the media or talking pundits, that we are in recovery. NO, we are NOT! We are in recession STILL!! When unemployment continues at 9% (or in reality, higher, more like 15%)...we are NOT in recovery.

[DangerZone]

Didn’t that used to be called a depression?