There are many reasons why we're hearing and seeing a lot of references to the Great Depression.
The Automatic Earth blog posits we are at Peak Economy. That is not good for my retirement.
The Bank Implode-o-Meter site was way out in front of the banking crisis.
The Baseline Scenario team (Johnson & Kwak) has written a book - 13 Bankers: The Next Collapse.
The Big Picture of our economic situation can be found here.
Calculated Risk has good stuff sometimes.
Chris Martenson has produced Crash Course, an outstanding primer on our economic situation.
Dr. Housing Bubble writes from So. California where he's learned to stop worrying and love the bust.
These sources of economic data might be the best leading indicators of the state of the economy. The Baltic Dry Index is a summary of all international shipping. Ceridan provides a near real-time view of diesel fuel sales in the US. The CMI is a summary of retail sales for Internet transactions. The CNN/Money Commodities page displays the recent history of selected commodity prices. America moves by Rail, maybe not. If you've been thinking the Government is lying to you Shadow Stats will vindicate your suspicions.
I like to think of this link to the FDIC Failed Bank list as the scorecard for the economy.
Michael Panzner predicted the current moras in Financial Armageddon.
Naked Capitalism has insights from those in the belly of the beast.
The Taxpayers for Common Sense organization does a good job watching the till.
Web of Debt exposes the fundamental flaws of our monetary system; read the blog, too.
I use Yahoo! Finance for current scores and highlights.
