Calgary is an interesting place. People are still doing well on their paycheques and last night the news featured a story about retailer's worried about Christmas sales doing the boxing day sales early. Could this be the best of both worlds? Is the rising worry going to give Calgarians a big bonus when shopping? Maybe!

The economy continues to be a hot topic and experts try to look into their crystal ball and wow those projections change from day to day.  OK FOLKS, here is the bottom line. It has nothing to do with GDP or mortgage issues or any of the other stuff that we hear about in the paper, on the news, or on the internet.

It comes down to this simple thing, "EMOTION". Yup, fear has taken hold. Take the fear out of the equation and things will totally balance out. So forget the massive bailouts and focus on reducing everyone's fear. Of course, I could be wrong!