From my view - nothing has changed.
Gas is down under $3 here now.
Financially, I think my parents loosing the renters of our old house is hurting them more money wise then any thing else.
Here in my city they are working on a company moving in that will bring in around 8,000 jobs - really, if it weren't for the news it wouldn't appear as any thing is going on lol
but then again, I'm a 24 year old who doesn't really pay attention to any thing other then my computer, so I may be missing something