[StockAyatollah]

Meanwhile, keep a close eye on the west coast dockworkers strike. This just might end up becoming the proverbial "straw that breaks the camel's back".

Yep, if this strike drags on think of all the Walmarts, Home Depots and 99 cent stores that will be cut off from their Chinese imports.

[Billy_bob_bob]

The repercussions are much bigger than that. NUMMI in Fremont has shut down their passenger car production as of today, and their commercial production line will be shut down tomorrow, all due to lack of parts supplied from Japan. Meanwhile thousands of truckers are idling their rigs, not making any money but they still have truck payments to make at the end of the month.

This will ripple through the whole economy, and just at a moment where things are not looking too good AND we are looking at the possibility of a war with Iraq. This strike is just what the doctor ordered. Doctor Kevorkian, that is.