It's Not the Fall that Kills You...

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...it's the sudden deceleration, or devaluation of your stock, rather (or both!). Anyhow, your cartoonist is cold, emaciated, and lives in an unassuming, squalid tin shanty (address: Hooverville, IL), which--thanks to the untiring efforts of our bright Captains of Finance and Industry--is now a palatial estate compared to the TV boxes nine out of ten Americans now inhabit.

Downturn

A more straightforward take on the state of the economy. Pardon the egregious anatomical error with Uncle Sam's left leg.

Roughin' It: Hard Times Ahead

Then the Market said unto the people, "I will erase the housing bubble which Greenspan and I have created...for I am sorry I created it." And lo, He proceeded to open the floodgates of Heaven, and let loose a liquidation crisis that deluged the land.