Today was a good day. My breakfast was long. And when the day began, it was almost over. That is usal for a German journalist in New York. Journalists are people who work from 9 to 5. But we have a six hour time-difference. Here comes the correspondents calculation:

Official Work Hour Calculation For Foreign Correspondents

8 – x = w
8 is the hours a professional journalist works.
x is the time -difference to the home office
w is the work that is left.

Here comes the calculation for a German journalist in New York:
8 – 6 = 2

A German journalist in New York has to work two hours. Its official, because this is the official formula to calculate work for professional journalists. Professional journalists read the newspapers for at least one hour and 30 minutes every day. I wrote this little analyisis about the financial crisis in 30 minutes. The editor in Germany did not call me back. I think he is still busy with my last analysis. I hope I am causing them not too much work, working this hard.

The Stock-Market Is Like A Cat
by Hans Fritz from Wallstreet

The stock-market is like a cat. It can drop and still land on its feet. Americas stock-market droped 777 points today. Even for a cat that would be very high. I think it broke a leg.

Technically you can make it to the hospital on one leg – but it hurts a lot. I think President Bush should tell his Republicans to think about the stock-market like a hurt cat.

Bush: Think about it as THIS cat!

Then they could not vote against it. No one votes against a cat, that fell out of a tree and broke a leg.

Bush: No! Do not think about this cat!

A little something to learn from the crisis: It is not only important to make people vote for a cat. You have to make them vote for your cat. The end.