Deep cleansing breaths. Hands in our pockets, or maybe we should sit on them. Whatever it takes to keep up from dialing up the broker or logging into our Internet stock trading mechanisms.

We are living in turbulent economic times. The stock market slide and the credit crunch seem on some days to be irreversible, notwithstanding the hundreds of billions of dollars the U.S. government is pumping into our shaky financial system.

By many experts’ accounts, we are in a recession. Clearly foreign markets believe that, as evidenced by Friday’s free fall at foreign exchanges. ...

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