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Was Charles Dickens referring to the American economy?

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From: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
Date: 20080803
Author:Alan Guebert

The American economy is downright Dickensian. If you're in investment banking, airlines, real estate or automobile anything, it's the worst of times. If you're in commodities - oil, copper, potash, gold, corn, soybeans - it's the best of times.

How long can this depressingly low goods and services, manically high commodity price split continue before this tale of two economies folds back into one?

No one can say, but if the data and forecasts of two recent Land Grant bulletins are combined, crop farmers likely will continue to roll for two or three more years.

The scary part, however, is that ...

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