Why is economic discussion considered small talk?

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Haha, while true that they seem to forget... I doubt that is true. When you only have one thing to fall back on for conversation, people tend to keep using that over and over to start a whole new discussion, even if the discussion hasn't ended. All someone has to do is *sigh* and say something like "the economy is really going downhill", even in mid discussion, and people will just nod and agree, haha. It's interesting really.

I don't know much about the economy stuff really-I can't keep up with it well... but I do know, even if you are prepared for the weather that is supposed to be (in my area at least), it's never an absolute that it will be. So people in my area always complain about it. My mom used to say the Missouri motto should be "If you don't like the weather here, stick around for 5 minutes!" (because it will change, haha).

Know those jokes you see on TV sometimes about the weather men not predicting accurately, so families decide to have parties because they are told it will be nice, then it shows them and it's pouring rain? That is us, in a nutshell. We used to go to this place every year, and usually it was nice... but the weather man usually didn't say a ton about it. One year, he was just going on and on about how nice it was going to be... we got there, and they were selling umbrellas and people were huddled in tiny circles eating their ice cream because it was so cold/rainy. We actually ran into the weather man there, haha... good times. I love irony.