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Here's another happy reminder of how Great the Greatest Story Never Told economy truly is. Creative free-market types that we are, Americans are finding a clever way out of the whole home mortgage crisis: arson. Or, as my ethnic-slur-a-minute high school community called it, "Greek Lightning." I think the classic form of the joke was two Greek guys standing in the kitchen of a gyros stand saying "Remember, no work tomorrow – fire in kitchen tonight."

I'm experiencing a slight New Hampshire hangover (metaphorical) and a wicked bout of the flu (not metaphorical). Sorry, today's a quickie. The bitchin' stuff I had planned for this week will wait until next. Tease.

A few weeks ago I exhorted you to bust out the TiVO and record some evidence of the Fox Business Network's existence before it's too late. It didn't exactly take the Amazing Kreskin to predict that network's inevitable failure, but I would never have predicted it would be this bad: the network is averaging about 6000 viewers during the day (you know, when the markets are open). To put that in context, FBN, which has no doubt cost News Corp some amount in the 8-figure range thus far, has about twice as many viewers as ginandtacos (cost: $7 per month).

Please note: this website's traffic is certainly nothing to brag about. But, hey, it's within striking distance of Rupert Murdoch's latest ratings poision! I'm going to sleep well tonight.