Due to recent budget cuts, economic downturn and the upward spiraling cost of gas and energy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

You know there's something gloomy about the world's situation when you find this as the status message of not one, but three people (independent and mutually exclusive, for the more probabilistically inclined) on your list of google-talk contacts.

There is one question that leaves me baffled - "Where did all the money go?" Whenever someone talks about the whole recession, the imagery in my mind is of miserly-looking people sitting at home with pots of gold, refusing to buy, sell or lend.

This post is going to remain incomplete till one day, I understand this whole mysterious 'market', and will explain to the fellow hapless reader.