The sky fell over the weekend. Well, not really. (What would the sky falling look like anyway?) But some stuff did fall from the sky. A Russian and American satellite collided, and in another apparently unrelated incident, a giant fireball streamed over Texas.
The stories read as apt metaphors for the gloomy economic news of late. I talked with business owners last week who heard stories of customers not paying bills; the credit crunch has spiraled into a cash crunch. When a company can"t get credit, it doesn"t pay its bills, and the late payments trickle up the supply chain. To put it mildly, it"s not a fun time to be in the metal fabrication business.
But don"t tell that to Don Begneaud.
