Don't take our word for it Google the latest unemployment rates (9.1 percent) or public company filings and dream of layoffs and losses to your hearts' content. Unfortunately, said dreams will most likely be nightmares.
Or will they? What does all this fatalistic econ chatter mean for those of us here in Hanover? We often seem more preoccupied with chaotic lines for Collis pasta than government failure and corporate greed. Or we hark on the shocking market slips of three years ago without always recognizing the problems plaguing our own bank accounts.
This week, The Mirror explores just how high the stakes are for us whether the searing flames of economic hardship have singed the paper-thin walls of our delicate bubble. In 50 years, will we really tell our grandkids tales of 2008's tanking capital markets? Instead, we'll warn them with more personal woes from student loans to a futile job search and perhaps more readily recall November 2011.
