Since more of our money is heading to the nation?s capital, a blurb in the new Fortune should not surprise us. Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers offers the following in the feature ?My Metric?:

I look at the length of lines at Starbucks in different cities to gauge their energy levels and influence. Today lines are much longer in D.C. than in New York, the Midwest, or the Carolinas ? a clear sign that the recession has not yet hit the capital.