Keeping your head above the gloom?

Things have been looking pretty grim on the US economic front of late: a string of bank failures and mergers, jitters on Wall St, and even the President predicting possible financial panic there if Congress doesn’t act immediately to ease the crisis. Stories of foreclosures and job losses have been filling the press. And of course, what affects the US is likely to affect the rest of the global economy. Is the bad news swamping you? Or have you got ways of staying positive in the face of the onslaught? If so, what are your tips to see the silver lining in every cloud?

On air: Is making big money immoral?

Emergency talks are continuing in the US over securing the seven hundred billion dollar rescue package for the US economy. While in the UK the Church of England’s two most senior clerics have called the bankers and speculators behind the credit crisis “bank robbers” and “asset strippers.”