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My name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained 2009.

And it's nice to be back.

Well, I hope you were able to hear a little message I put up a week or so ago,

just saying that please keep the faith and that I'm continuing to work on the show

and come up with ideas for future shows and try and find ways to finance this,

because although it is very much a volunteer effort,

I mean, I don't get any money out of it and don't expect to make any money out of it.

People like Graham, my webmaster are doing this for free because we believe in the project.

So the whole idea being that one of these days we're going to find a better financial footing to put it on,

which not only will keep the wheels turning, but it will allow us to do more adventurous things with the website,

do other shows, go to places and do things that haven't been done before.

I've got the ideas. All I need is the money, as they say, but I'm sure that's a lot of people's problem at the moment.

Walk with the state of the economy around the world as it is, both sides of the Atlantic and around the globe too.

It is not good.

A few weeks ago on a radio show in Liverpool, I spoke to Trend Watcher Gerald Salente.

A man's become a bit of a guru in the United States.

And this was his take on the way things are going to be.

Don't spend a penny that you can't afford.

If you have a child going to university and they're not taking courses that are really going to bring a return on investment,

like an engineer or a scientist, a doctor, accountant, whatever, if they're going for the softer arts, consider it twice.

This is a time to save money and prepare for the worst.

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