Quote from oktiri:
you're just as fucking crazy as stock_trader. your existence must be taken as a serious contrarian indicator.
US survived 1929, 9/11, Hitler.i It'll survive a credit binge.
Dow should still go down 1500 point to reflect 8 X valuations..and then we'll be just fine.
I'm not going to make a prediction on how this turns out, because in truth, *I don't know* , and I'm not afraid to admit it
But resting on 'the USA survived this, that, and the other thing...' is a very false sense of security
Living on credit until it is exhausted in one of the most time tested recipies for poverty - it's is in effect, hocking everything you have to your creditors, who end up with everything
unless you break the deal, which has it's own set of side effects, some potentially catastrophic. one of the things that's bankrupted us is our endless quest for military security, at the expense of economic security
Eisenhower said "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"
so what happens when the sherrif comes to the home of the gun nut to reposess the guns because he went broke on his gun collection?
this is totally without precident in American History, debt in the 1930s was NOTHING like it is now. Sure Germany and Japan rebuilt themselves but they were on the *receiving end* of a generous American 20th century policy - we wont be
we have never witnessed such a level of national financial stupidity
Our founding fathers would be horrified - you think Benjamine Franklin would be optomistic about the outcom of such financial irresponsibility?
Like I said, there's no way to know how this will end, good or bad. I wouldnt rule out the worst