Here is the Info for today update.: FT lead story, folks are not buying US bonds!: www.ft.com Paul Volcker thinks full employment means a higher UNEMPLOYMENT!: www.bloomberg.com G. Celente’s Press release: Green Shoots or Greatest Depression? Kingston, NY, 7 May 2009 — The financial fields replete with sprouting “green shoots” should be viewed with suspicion, if not alarm, warns Gerald Celente, The Trends Research Institute Director. “They are not a mirage, but they are ephemeral.” Field Marshall Ben Bernanke and his Green Shoot Brigade have fertilized the economic landscape with trillions of sweat equity dollars extorted from today’s public and the public of generations to come. Regardless of how depleted the land, heavy doses of dollars spread so thickly over the financial and government territories, will force “green shoots” to grow. But the fundamentals of the economy remain unsound. They will not be corrected by forced fertilizing barren acreage. “‘Green shoots’ may sprout,” said Celente, “but they will not flower. The economy cannot be coerced back into growth with tons of money manure.” As the ancient parable puts it: “A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good …

I address LM’s comment on my being out of touch as well as explain the other 2 issues that lead to my employment termination.