U.S. and Global Economies Slipping in Unison

This article suggests that the illusions of prosperity remaining in parts of the world as we in the United States suffer from awful management decisions is disingenuous to keep perpetrating. When the US economy falls on hard times there is a global ripple effect and it is now come home to roost. I trust this economic downturn finally catches up to and punishes the oil speculators who are raping the world's economies by making commodities overpriced in the global marketplace. Oil speculators needed to be tried for global financial treason as perpetrators of crimes against humanity and sentenced accordingly.