[Dixie Yooper]

Unexpectedly? What is this, humor?

The Commerce Department must not realize that things are worse because of Obama and the new Secretary of Commerce...

[Never on my watch]

This may only be my impression, but it seems that I hear an opposite financial report each day. Housing is trending up one day then down the next. Same for all economic indicators. So many stats rely on info weeks or months old and are assembled by groups that have an agenda. It is all useless except for market and political manipulation.