As international bureaucrats panic in Bangkok over soaring energy shocks and collapsing sovereign ledgers, local gringo Dave nodded sagely before demanding a discount on three papayas. The entire planetary financial system may be plunging into the abyss, but the only deficit anyone cares about down here is running out of Pacifico before sunset. IMF economists wept openly into their pad thai, while the 4 o'clock offshore wind at Cerritos completely redeemed humanity.