When Bad News is Good News

"Worsening U.S. Divorce Rate Points to Improving Economy" said an annoying headline. I was so annoyed with it I waited a day to put it up here. Trying to figure out why it's annoying, it's annoying. I mean, shouldn't I be glad, that, other than getting passed over for an Oscar, there is really no bad news anymore. Sure, there is high unemployment and Miley Cirrus is doing... whatever. We have no privacy to speak of and a president who literally does whatever he wants. But, there is a bright side to that too, I'm sure. I'm probably annoyed that I haven't thought of it, micro-aggressive rube that I am. I know you are, but what Am I?

Anyway, Am I alone on this? Check out the little personal story that is supposed to give us some kind of hope or whatever.

Hard economic times had kept Amy Derose and her husband Lawrence locked in an unhappy marriage for the sake of their engineering firm in Pompano Beach, Florida.

“The business was hanging on by a thread and we had to hang on,” said Derose, 53, who had been married 35 years and worked as the business manager. “We couldn’t afford to split. He needed me in the business and I needed him.”

With Florida’s economy and housing market recovering, “we are definitely on the upswing” and revenue is rising at their 24-employee company. That is allowing the couple to move forward with their divorce this month after years of showing up to work as if nothing were wrong personally. Now, she is looking for a job and “couldn’t be happier.” Read More

The article goes on to explain how split-ups mean new households, who will need more stuff, that will need to get built, bought and shipped. And, isn't it all wonderful to make lemonade.

Bloomberg News