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The Happy Talk Express

The economy is a mess. The financial markets are in a panic. But these idiots think we mustn't say anything negative.

Read more about Wall Street's ongoing crisis.

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Correction, Oct. 6, 2008: This article originally misspelled the last name of Richard Rodgers. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at moneybox@slate.com and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback.

Photograph of Richard Fuld by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.