Visitors to Brockmann.com are quite pessimistic about the global economic recession that some report has been underway since early 2007. A third of visitors completing the one-click survey chose the future-most start of recovery date, while 60% expected recovery in 2010!
Personally, I've already seen some signs of recovery – especially considering large enterprise communications-oriented trade show attendance in Florida – where it seemed to me that there were still 92% of Americans working.