Wild Week

It's been a pretty interesting week in the financial world, with the market plummeting to 6 year lows, and down yet again today. The dollar is at it's highest mark in some time (of course when I was traveling in Europe last summer the dollar was at an all-time low), and oil continues to stay in the 30's. The reaction to the much anticipated stimulus plan hasn't been great, at least from the financial sector. Personally, I think the infrastructure portion of the bill is great - we need it, but the rest seems to be a hodge-podge of spending that no one is really sure about yet.

Work has slowed down drastically, as I am only going to end up with about 15 hours this week- not good news. I survived the first round of exams and did quite well which was a relief, and this morning my state refund was deposited in my account - yay!