Depression 2010?

Lets talk pets.

All new buildings are pet-friendly because it turns away all pet owners, and even non-pet owners think they might, sometime down the road, want a pet, and don't want to commit to a petless lifetime.

Do you think my super will mind if I sneak a cat into my apartment? Theoretically my lease says no pets, but all the people in the rent-controlled apartments have dogs and cats.

Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea that a catastrophe will happen in 2012, stating that predictions of impending doom are found neither in classic Maya accounts nor in astronomy. Mainstream Mayanist scholars state that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history.[3][5] The modern Maya, on the whole, have not attached much significance to the date, and the classical sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean.[6]

American banks ended 2009 with $1.2 trillion worth of total European debt. That is about par with the amount of subprime residential mortgage debt outstanding in 2008. It would be foolhardy to assume this problem is far away.