I count among my friends and relatives several people who are literally physically sick about what the stock market is doing to their retirement and how the housing market is ruining the remainder of their net worth. A larger number of friends have slipped into denial, averting their eyes from the lower right hand corner of the television screen and the Dow Jones bug that is posted by cable news channels and refusing to open their broker and 401(k) statements. In the midst of the current panic, economist...