Well, it’s been a week and there’s been no word from Subway. In fairness, they are probably busy. The price of tomatoes has gone nuts lately and they are trying to figure out how to ration those as well. If the lettuce crop goes south, they are in significant danger of just becoming a bakery.

In other news, troop levels will be raised to an all time high in Iraq. Gee, who could have anticipated that? No word on the draft yet. That probably won’t happen until they finish packing up Powell and get Condi seated in her new office so she can finalize the Iran plans.

The dollar is plummeting based on concerns about our staggering national debt. Spun one way, this makes our goods cheaper overseas and also lessens the attractiveness of outsourcing. Unfortunately, all of our stuff which is now made or serviced overseas becomes more expensive in America and doesn’t change much for the rest of the world. Translation, the dollar’s slide is good for wholly American companies who produce wholly domestic product and export it. Other companies (which amount to most of them) are less advantaged by this. It’s not remotely clear how more deregulation, tax cuts, and government spending will resolve this, but I know G.W. will stay that course until we’re the third world economy he dreams of.