Quote from Garbage Can Ray:
In my mind, There is a high probability that the market gets completely and utterly blown out next week and well, then for all practical purposes everything we have known is OVER. It will be another disastrous manifestation of dominoes falling down. This Madoff thing is astonishing... Basically we thought that all of these financial engineers with their opaque, proprietary, complex (blah, blah, blah) bullsh*t methods were smarter than us. Well they were smarter con artists, that part is true. Tell me, WHAT IS REAL? Because I don't have a clue anymore. If what I think is going to happen, happens, then I will be in some remote part of South America or Canada with a lot of weapons and making a stab at self sufficiency (a skill which I am afraid that evolution has robbed me of over the last few generations of "civilized" living)