Today marks the start of the countdown to the end of the world (again).
1 Year from today (20/12/2012 to everyone except Americans) the world will end according to either the Aztecs or the Mayans or someone translating their text who's mistaken nothing will happen with end of the world due to a rogue squiggly line.
So who cares about a world recession. Spend money like there's no tomorrow as there's only 365 tomorrows left.