I keep asking my fiance, who has been through two economic downturns in “the valley”, what we can expect. I confess to an over-eagerness to see housing prices come down so I can harbor realistic dreams of a big kitchen, front and back yards. I have no wish to continue to see friends lose their jobs and potentially their health insurance. I would love for traffic to get better. But I don’t want the already struggling non-corporate bookstores to give up their last gasp. So, I guess I’m hoping the economy reaches a sane equilibrium. But everything depends on everything else, so the economy rises like a house of cards and falls like dominos.