Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[Alex]

CNN just spent a lengthy amount of time talking about how good the U.S. economy is doing. This was sparked by today's unemployment figures which (despite local pockets of badness) are amazingly good. (Fox News was also talking about the same topic earlier but that isn't worth mentioning since it would just be a sign of the channel whitewashing the problems of the administration.)