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Yesterday was a momentous occasion. It was the first business day in roughly six months when our daily mail did not include at least one invitation to apply for a credit card (usually two, sometimes three, most of them "pre-approved.") Getting all those applications gave me the creeps, but suddenly not getting them makes me a little nervous too. Does it mean the business mavens are finally catching on that even serious debt addicts are about to go cold turkey? Does it mean the corporate bigwigs are finally noticing that they are the only people whose income isn't going down?

I mean, our local Sunday paper has, for at least the last couple of years, included a real estate section the size of the city phone book, and a jobs section the approximate thickness of a wedding invitation. Am I the only one wondering who buys all that real estate?

Is The Almighty Economy, like Wile E. Coyote, finally looking down to notice that it has run off the edge of the cliff and is poised above empty air?