Happy Days Are Here Again: US Debt Problem Solved -- Done As Much As We Need -- The President

The Washington Post is reporting that the administration feels, paraphrasing now, that the US debt problem is nearly behind us, assuming a few more "i's are dotted and t's are crossed."

It appears that working the US debt problem will soon be in our rear view mirror.

Happy days are here again.

And then the earlier story that the secular bear market may be ending, in Section C of today's WSJ.

Happier days are here again.

Oil is up about $1.20 on the CNBC television crawler. Up about $1.16 at Yahoo!Financial. And the WTI/Bakken spread at Clearbrook really, really improved: narrowed to $2.00.

Happiest days are here again.

Good luck to all.

And, on top of all this, US coal exports set a new record, doubling the amount exported in 2009.

Yes, happy days are here again:

Happy Days Are Here Again, Ben Selvin and the Crooners