These days it’s hard to have a conversation that doesn’t eventually roll around to the state of THE ECONOMY. What’s amazing is that, at this point, no one needs to use adjectives when they refer to THE ECONOMY. We’ve stopped bothering with words like “bad,” “down” or “tough.” We all know how things are, and we all know that, with the possible exception of a few people in and around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., we don’t have a lot of control over when things are going to get better. However, we do have control over how we’re going to rise to the challenge.