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To: ~digs who wrote (6877)	9/25/2009 3:41:31 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 7944

Yes, quite a bit to think about. What about this?> "Reverse Square-Root-Shaped Recovery" Some people think the recovery will be "V-shaped": a sharp fall down followed by a sharp rise up. Some people think it will be "W-shaped": a sharp fall down, a sharp rise up, and then another sharp fall down when inventory restocking and stimulus run out. (Some people used to think it would "L-shaped" or "U-shaped," but the sharp recovery so far appears to have proved them wrong.) Last month, we described how Charles Schwab chief investment officer Liz Ann Sonders thinks the recovery will be neither "V-shaped" or "W-shaped" but "square-root-shaped" recovery: a sharp fall down, a sharp rise up, and then a long period of treading water. Well, now we've heard everything. Greg Ip, the brainy U.S. economics editor for the Economist, thinks the recovery will be "reverse square-root shaped": a sharp fall down, a sharp rise part of the way back up, and a long struggle.