thanks for inviting me, it was a fun weekend.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy entered a recession in December 2007, the panel that dates American business cycles said today.

The declaration was made by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group of economists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last time the U.S. was in a recession was from March through November 2001, according to NBER.

The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on Friday, November 28. The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U.S. recessions. The committee determined that a peak in economic activity occurred in the U.S. economy in December 2007. The peak marks the end of the expansion that began in November 2001 and the beginning of a recession. The expansion lasted 73 months; the previous expansion of the 1990s lasted 120 months.

Obama also announced that economist Christina Romer will be director his Council of Economic Advisors, which provides economic analysis and advice to the president.

Romer, whose expertise includes the Great Depression and the economic recovery that followed, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the monetary economics program and a member of the business cycle dating committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the group that officially determines when U.S. recessions begin and end.

In Romer, Obama said, he has found an independent economist respected by both conservatives and liberals who has done "groundbreaking research on many of the topics our administration will confront, from tax policy to fighting recessions." [emphasis added]

BIO. Surely she labored with undue political pressure to moderate NBER recommendations and public advisory notices. Clinton tax era, Summers school of monetary institutions, and the Martin "Tradeable Gas Rights" Felstein era of business.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

I'm sure, if more Chinese buy Cif to scrub clean their wood rice bowls in that nasty Yangzte River, current balances will be restored.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

And suppplemetary (name that sitcom) : If you're in plaster, did they leave your toes sticking out with no means of protection from the elements ? Which must be a nuisance.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Of course, DDT will have to be mysteriously killed now ...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Have i crashed anything?

Skennah Kowa

By Screaming Jay Hawkins

and Nina

A glass roof, a glass of whisky, seeing through a glass darkly....and because it reminds me of way back when...

End on a positive--some old hip to go with the new hip!

And an extra track for ceebs--I didn't know what to choose, I've been down some old memories, and finally I thought, come on, The Stranglers--but how to choose?  Then I thought of Alex, out there, but no!  Ach, so hard to choose--ah!  One you might not have heard for a while!  Hope all goes well in ceebsland!

Well, and I wanted a Patti Smith track, living on the thin edge, falling off, getting back up or just lying there thinking....:

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.