I agree with realtime that there is a lot of money on the sideline. In my opinion, if the product can get on the shelves in January, the prospect of an income from sales will help bolster the survival of Alda. Otherwise, we are in for a rocky 2009 and things are going to get much worse.

This spring there will be another wave of sub-prime mortgages coming due and it should be the last. Bailing out the auto industry, as one economist puts it, allows the auto makers to kick the can for another three months. The British Government tried to bail out their auto industry in 1970 with the creation of British Leyland. It collapsed and the company was discected and sold off. The auto industry needs sales, not cash injections.

Eventually, all this bailout money is going to catch up with the US and there will be a domino effect. You can only print so much confetti before you get hit with massive inflation. Some has to pay eventually because the US cannot afford to finance two wars and float a failing economy.