This Is Haunting In Every Respect...

I wanted to link this post from Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture. The photo in the post should shock everyone into reality about the condition of the U.S. economy.  Next time you hear the idiots running our system, like Banana Ben Bernanke or Tiny Brain Tim Geithner, remark about how they saved our system and that we're on the road to recovery, think about the picture in this post, which says more than 1000 words about how ugly the economy is globally:

The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination – and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year (here's the link):

A Picture Says 1000 Words

Everyone got gold?