I don't have so much to do with the private sector so I wouldn't notice this over here in the first place. I have noticed that the worlds stock markets seem to be in a second round of plunge and it looks like a rather steep fall at that. Newspapers over here are...well... worried more then they were a few months back. Lots of key stone industry giants are on the brink and if they go down the fall out will catch up a few months later and be pretty severe me thinks. I don't know how many of you have read much about how the 1929 crash developed over the first 3-4 years into the early 30's, but seems to me like there are a lot of parallels. Perhaps Obama will end up having an entirely different primary task to accomplish in his term(s) then he'd imagined. I still think that by and large, accomplished professional piano technicians will fare well through this... however bad it gets. We've learned how to stand on our own two feet and make our way as it were. Cheers RicB List Has anyone else noticed that people are paying in cash a lot more than usual? I don't take credit cards, so it's either cash or check, but on the average I normally get maybe one customer per month that pays me in cash. Maybe, two. Since January, I've been flush in cash. Every week, one or two customers pay me in cash. I haven't used an ATM since '08. So, I'm wondering: anyone else experience this lately? And if so, could this somehow be a bi-product of the recession? (I could understand people using a credit card in tough times to forestall payment, but I don't see how paying in cash would be an advantage.) Tom Sivak Chicago
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