Standard and Poors reports that nearly 75% of sales revenues are lower than last year's comparisons.

Sales declined $1.46 TRILLION from last year.

An incomprehensible number, just to put it in perspective, if the decline in revenues were spread over all S&P companies, it would represent a loss of $29,200,000,000.00
(Twenty Nine Billion Two Hundred Million) per each of the
500 S&P components. Note: the average capitalization of all S&P 500 companies is roughly $19.7 Billion.

The conclusion must be that anyone drinking the MSM Kool Aid that the economy is improving is simply deluded.

And with the majority of revenues depending on the "consumer", this economy is in serious trouble.

Feel free to go to the S&P web site and draw your own conclusions.