The local hot dog man in front of the Home Depot here several weeks ago was talking about ARM's and how surprised everyone would be when they were triggered,

A young girl in my local supermarket told me, a month ago, she was quitting her job as a cashier there to do full time options trading and gave me a WWW link so I could do it if I liked.

About the productive end of N.American economy I have German car a Japanese fridge, Japanese laptop, a British motorcycle, the gears on my bike are Japanese as well as who knows what else on it, but I think it was assembled in the US. My guitar was 'handcrafted' in China. About the only two things I have I am positive were manufactured in the US are a pair of 20 year old fruit tree pruners (marked drop forged USA) and a brand new construction hammer of which this must be leftover from the housing boom.

Thanks for responding ya'all
I think it is much bigger than anyone knows.

Just found this at Mish's site;

Japanese Housewives vs. Global Alpha

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

Tens of thousands of married Japanese women ventured into online currency trading in the last year and a half, playing the markets between household chores or after tucking the children into bed.