The first email was from the Austin Business Journal:  “Banks lose billions in 2nd quarter”.

Now, not only do I receive daily emails from a wide range of news sources, I also am inundated with a steady stream of emails from various job, career, and recruiting websites, as the start-up business I’m involved in competes with them in a variety of indirect ways.

And so one of those sites, SimplyHired.com, sent me an email saying “The End of the Recession is Upon Us”.

Funny how different each of those headlines read.. and the truth is, they are both intended to evoke the same response: Open the email!  Besides, I don’t deny the truth in each of the statements–but they are just a bit ironic.