Economic Recovery - Smoke and Mirrors?

If you are paying attention to the MSM (mainstream media), then you are aware of the talk about the recession being over and the economy getting poised for a recovery.Richard Heinberg begs to differ. In an exceedingly lengthy, and heavily footnoted, Oil Drum post Heinberg lays out an alternative that suggests any recovery we see is going to be shortlived at best. For the Reader's Digest