What is your local economic situation? Give us the short story, long story, details. Good, bad or ugly what is going on in your hometown? Something like this will give us a much better pulse on the economy than what the establishment is telling us.

Me personally:

I live in rural Southern Illinois, and almost every single county and town is laying off workers from firefighters to school teachers due to massive budget deficits.

Most of these defecits have to do with not…

Your current "on the ground" economic report