The Question, from our December issue: What is the leading indicator for you that the recession is over?
"When the astroturfers can afford to say 'no' when someone offers to pay them to scream at a health-care town hall." -- Lee Camp, Laughing Liberally
"Ben Bernanke shaves his recession beard." -- Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress
"We can finally buy new clothes to replace our 'Hope' T-shirts." -- Justin Krebs, Living Liberally
--The Editors
