What’s Really Going on with the Stock Market Today?

Have you heard the news?:
—- The U.S. lost 84,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate
rose to a five-year high.
—- Foreclosures of U.S. homes rose to a new 29-year high in the
second quarter of 2008.
—- The Federal government, after bailing out Bear Sterns this
summer, announced this weekend that it will rescue mortgage
giants [...]