I spent most of the night Sunday, and all of Monday in a dreary haze after attracting an intestinal virus. The cause has me a little puzzled. I don’t know if it was due to something I ate, natural, or all of the viral misinformation we keep receiving on the economy. From time to time, all of these things can make us sick.

When I returned back to my office bleary eyed, I was cleaning up some papers and old magazines, and ran across several past issues of Barron’s. As I began to throw some away, I ran into the October 23rd issue which read “Survivor! GOP Will Hang On.” Needless to say, I don’t think that many in the financial media have their fingers as close to the pulse of the average American like you and I.

The cover of November 6th issue of Barron’s proudly proclaims, “Next Stop 13,000?” The hedge in this headline is the question mark.