YOUR SCARY ASS CHART OF THE DAY, plus a question: “If consumers, who account for 71% of the economy, aren’t spending, and small business owners, who do 65% of all the hiring in the country, are petrified with insecurity, why is the stock market hitting all-time highs and the corporate media proclaiming happy days are here again?”

(Via Doug Ross.)

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