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Americans are marching to the unemployment offices in record numbers for the fifteenth week in a row. Job loss results in a foreclosure 15% of the time. The April figures for home foreclosures set a record for the second straight month. The median price for homes fell 14%, the biggest decline ever. Production capacity utilization is down 69.3%, the lowest since records began in 1967. Somebody ought to tell the chart crazed denizens of the Street of Broken Dreams to stop smoking the "green shoots". A sign of the times in Stumptown: "Share the well."