As consumer confidence levels continue to set new lows, while the global economy slips beneath the waves and our own post-free market hodgepodge of government-assisted capitalism experiences arrhythmia, I found this article to be useful. As the economic calamity migrates from Wall Street to Main Street, it behooves us to view the damage in a different way than watching Mad Money or Fox Business News, or even poring over WSJ or Investors Business Daily. This from the Christian Daily Monitor (jeez, when was the last time you read anything from them?):
Campaign 2008: Patchwork Nation: A gloomy economic picture darkens – presenting a bright spot for Obama...
It's kinda like looking at a national weather map of ongoing storm systems and all the counties that have storm warnings posted. A fascinating composition; the entire nation is measured and divided into 11 community "types". Each community/county adapts differently from a set of economic indicators. The result is the map above, released on a monthly basis.
And here to provide musical accompaniment to your instantaneous visualized economic analysis is our old friend, suave-meister Bryan Ferry. Here he interprets Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall". It's a truncated video clip, missing the first minute or so of the song. I include it because it's a classic Ferry moment of leather-clad models cooing along while Bryan warbles his fey lines to a bemused Bob Dylan, sitting front row:
YouTube - Bryan Ferry.A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall.Polar Prize 2000
Nothing gets a musical debate going better than to pit Dylan purists against Ferry/Roxy Music fans. And here's our Quote of the Day:
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake." -- Meister Eckhart
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