So much for just about anything and everything resembling good news.  Today, the market got hit by a whole lot of bad stuff, and the Dow went down 681.07 points (or 7.71 percent) as a result.  The Nasdaq fell 137.5 points (or 8.95 percent). Perhaps we should start with the "old" news first.  The National Bureau of Economic Research declared this morning that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December of 2007.  This could almost be taken as ...