By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud in DailyWealth:
"There are still no jobs here," my friend Lee tells me.
Lee used to work for a beachfront resort on Florida's east coast. Our town was built on tourism and real estate. Both are dead. The resort is on the brink of bankruptcy.
I told you Lee's story a few months ago in DailyWealth. The situation isn't any better today. I lent him some money recently... which I know I might not see again.
Officially, Florida's unemployment rate is 12%. But unofficially, it has to be much worse... When 20% of Palm Beach County residents are 90 days or more behind on their mortgage (as I wrote about in DailyWealth here), something is going terribly wrong.
With all this terrible news in Florida, what I'm about to say might sound crazy to you. But I believe it is true: The recession is most certainly over. In fact...
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