Various members of the NetNet crew are in and out this vacation and snow-filled week, so we've asked a few friends to fill in. The following is from hedge fund manager and financial columnist James Altucher What does Main Street care more about: It turns out that the worry was accurate.

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Most likely they occurred on Main Street. The bulk of these requests were coming not from Wall Street but from places ranging from Wisconsin to Utah as Main Street America dealt with the ramifications of falling ks, increased distance to retirement, and underwater mortgages.

Type in a phrase at Google Trends and Google returns a chart showing the popularity of that phrase over time. Google Trends has also been useful in tracking down outbreaks of potential pandemics.

Google Flutrends is used by the Center for Disease Control to identify regional outbreaks of flu based on how people are searching on common flu symptoms. Interesting to note that the popularity of the phrase is only correlated with the stock market decline and NOT the housing market decline which began at the end of Nor is it correlated with the sharp spike in unemployment that has occurred since late When that falters, their world view is shaken.

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The states where the phrase was most popular were Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire. Many pundits suggest that in a collapse like we experienced in October, , the government should let the chips fall where they may.

Let it fall to or or even lower, despite the fact that it may have been government policies that caused the mess in the first place. Read more from Altucher on his blog The Altucher Confidential.

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So where were the bodies flying out of windows on Wall Street?