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I’d been coping with the economic meltdown pretty well:

When Bear Stearns went down, I tried to bear up.

When I heard about Lehman Brothers, I made Lehmanade. (What else could a layman do?)

When Warren Buffet said he’d pour $5 billion into Goldman Sachs, I thought, “Finally somebody’s practicing safe Sachs.”

And I’ve developed a strategy for tracking of my retirement plan: Don’t Even Think About Finding Out How Much You’ve Lost! (I have a $.198K)

Yes, I’d been coping fairly well. Then I bought deodorant and realized the meltdown directly affects me.