Daily Gloom – 01/13/09

• Texas Students staying home in droves with flu-like symptoms.
• California Dreamin’ – The world’s eighth-biggest economy shuffles towards fiscal oblivion. 
• And, they, like China, suffer from reverse migration now.  

• Asia Watch – Regional downturns and falling exports.  
• And, China leads the way into suckiness.
• Then, here is the Asian poster child for financial loss and longing - Sony, of all fucking people.
• Meanwhile, our Brit cousins are suffering THE WORST retail season EVER.