(FORTUNE Magazine) – These must be the dog days of summer: CEOs are in the doghouse, and the market is bouncing like a jittery Yorkie. Now that autumn is nearly here, the Hype Index looks back at how some summer standbys fared. --Jason Tanz

Double dip: We once used this term only to talk about ice cream. Now its mere mention evokes grim economic predictions. Let's hope we're not heading for a meltdown.

Barbecue: This summer some experts decided that Atkins was right: Fat is in, while carbohydrates are out. In that case, pile on the burgers--just hold the buns.

Power failures: It seems that almost every single CEO is corrupt, incompetent, or both. It makes us long for those halcyon days of rolling blackouts.

Summer lovin': Poor Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. Hollywood's weirdest couple had May and December all sewn up, but they just couldn't make it through July.