[B][I]By Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch[/I][/B] We are nowhere near a depression, so let's stop talking ourselves into one. Spiro Agnew's words of the Nixon era ring true today. The politicians, pundits and, yes, the press, are nattering nabobs of negativism. For example, in recent weeks, the broadcast and the print media have filed stories replete with scare words. You don't even have to look at the tabloids to see what I mean. The front page of the New York Times recently described what it called "chaos" in the financial markets. Not to be outdone, most of the first section of The Wall Street Journal one day last week ... (full story)