This comment will not be popular with people who have been laid off but there may be a silver lining in all of this. Our level of tree cutting, water use, fossil fuel burning etc. and production of pollution and garbage is undoubtedly going down with the economy. This may just give us the necessary breathing space to stop the trashing of the very environment that gives us many of our needs for free. If we do crash the enviroment, we will look back on this present little blip in ... More »

The ailments of the American markets will need more than stimulus money. Americans need to get back to making things, rewrite NAFTA to create equilibrium with benefits to the US economy as well as our trading partners.

The news is full of people saying there's only one president, but Obama's doing the right thing getting his own people in place and working with Bush's people to gets Obama'a policies in place because either way you look at it, this is a long term fix that Bush and his cronies have left to to the American people.

As a member of the manufacturing industry, this report seems to be spot on with sharp decline in orders and increasing lay-offs. We can only hope it will get better...