NY Times Quote of the Day:

“People are grieving. There was a death. Their money died.”Barbara Goldsmith, a semiretired psychotherapist in Delray Beach, Fla.

No kidding! When my friend called up her credit card company to say she wouldn’t be able to make the next payment because of losing her job, she said that the representative told her that most of the calls she had received in the past week were related to job loss. I heard fellow gym rats commenting that their yearly vacation plans were cancelled. Luckily, there have been some bright spots as friends find jobs despite the economic downturn.