Max Wolff for GMS February 2008

Hard Times & Easy Money

Statistics are cold and distant. No blood pumps through their veins, stress never causes their hands to tremble and no tears ever form in the corners of their eyes. They are a cold calculus of the pains and joys experienced by millions of American fathers, mothers, sons, sisters, daughters and neighbors. Hard times are pounding in the door of America’s depreciating economic house. Lets survey the landscape and keep in mind that behind ever number below there are vast numbers of real people with real problems.