Now we are sure that you don’t turn to Londonist for our financial acuity and business acumen (gawd ‘elp you if you do), so we are not going to endeavour to offer any sage words on the economic status quo. Bulls and bears, stocks and shares, they’re really not our bag. Problem is, though, nobody else seems to be able to tell us with any degree of conviction what on earth is going on. A quick zoom around a few market analysis websites this morning told us zip, zilch, nothing that we could not surmise from reading the headlines over the shoulder of someone on the tube this morning. They are all contradicting each other, the popular press with tales of doom and gloom, and the so-called experts with a big unhelpful question mark.

‘Fraid that on Planet Londonist we are determined to remain irritatingly optimistic about the world, the universe and everything. And we’ll stay that way until someone tells us that we’ll have to cut back on choccie biccies and go back to economy di-gi’s. All we can suggest if you are a stressed city type is that you take a long cool look at what it is you do every day (you have our sympathy – we couldn’t do it), realise how much nicer it would be if you had a bit more er, quality of life, and start making jolly enjoyable contingency plans. Take up yoga. Oh, and make sure you read Londonist more often.

Morris-dancing-city-slickers photo courtesy of peprice’s flickr stream.