Yesterday USAirways announced that it would lay off 11,000 employees.

Continental Airlines… Yesterday USAirways announced that it would lay off 11,000 employees.

Continental Airlines laid off 12,000.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 685 points yesterday.

Looking at numbers like that, some might say the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon wrecked the American economy.

But things do not have to shape up this way.

When terrorists crashed the airliners, many believe they intended to disrupt the United States