As you sit back to enjoy burgers and beers (or whatever your version of a 4th of July picnic is) in celebration of the birth of our great nation, I leave you today with only one question to ponder:

If there's a small but growing problem in the national economy and more and more people become aware of it, does this help it get fixed sooner, or does it only more rapidly become a bigger and more out of control problem because of that same media exposure and the public's growing fear and mob mentality reactions?