We may be in the midst of an unparalleled recession, with unemployment and inflation both skyrocketing, but there's at least one group of investors who are sitting pretty today: the moguls of the adult diaper industry.

Because the first teaser trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises" has hit the internet and 300 million Americans just crapped themselves.

Taking things a bit too far, you say? Well, that's only because you haven't yet seen the awesomeness of the clip from writer/director Christopher Nolan, who begins by flashing back to scenes from the first two films in his trilogy, "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" and then takes things to a whole new level thanks to a gripping voiceover, a deathbed Commissioner Gordon (?!) and a brief glimpse of the new, ultimate evil, the one and only...

Ah, but that would be telling. Why don't you just check out the clip yourself, courtesy of the official "Dark Knight Rises" Facebook page and our friends at The Film Page? because there's nothing that can keep Batman and Nolan down -- not even the economy: