A slight depression is like being slightly pregnant. Unemployment at 3% is not sustainable if not practically impossible. Gold at $350 hmmm.....It's been under $300 for a long while, the cost of mining the stuff is $250 an ounce. I know it is over $300 now, just don't really keep a close eye on it. The market is in oversold condition and the shorts sellers are out there in a big way. So....... But it's the World Situation that keeps people on edge. The other thing that no one has mentioned yet is the Political climate in the USA, there is an election coming in November. Remember the last one, the market never really recovered from that one. We are a house divided as to the future course. Maybe 911 cleared the table off and the American people have decided the direction they want to go in. There is a sea change in America.