Recession watch

• The amount of Ford cars sold in September 2007 were 21% lower than the amount of cars sold in September 2006. (BBC)
• House sales in the US are slower that at any time in the recorded history of mankind (these records and stats go waaaaay back to January 2001) (BBC)
• Australian interest rates have been held at 6.5% Inflation is obviously still a worry here. (SMH)
• Crude Oil futures are still over US$80. (Bloomberg)
• Rents in Melbourne are up 6% over a 12 month period. (Theage)
• Manly loses the Grand Final, thus denying the world an economic and social utopia. (Wikipedia)