Monday starts with a stark warning from Ernst and Young...
The Item Club has downgraded its forecast for gross domestic product (GDP) to just 0.9% this year, well below the 1.4% it predicted three months ago.
They use the same economic forecasting model as the government, by the way.
Inflation figures are out tomorrow, it may well rise again to 5% and is eating away at people's incomes as they suffer with little or no pay rises to compensate. And that is before the new £75 Bn of quantitative easing hits the streets. Watch prices soar then...
Two reports due out today will say that 2012 will be as bad as 2011...
And then we are faced with more dire retail sales figures on Thursday.
And Plan A ? Well, manufacturing industries 'taking up the slack' isn't worth a bean.
And Plan B ? There is no Plan B.