Quote from EMRGLOBAL:
its concerned about a potential debt downgrade as well as the slowing economy.
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Very good point HOOD.
We are entering the second phase of a very bad Depression. Of course the Pundits will not speak of this, they will call it a possible slowdown.
There was never a recovery, it was the printing press, QEs and Bailouts that bounced this market but not the economy. The US STOCK MARKET should be near 6500 if not lower. It will head that direction and slowly bleed with very violent Rallies lasting months at a time. This is due to the Government Intervention and not allowing either the Housing Market or Stock Market to naturally correct itself.
The downgrade has all ready happen but has not been "Written" by MOODYs . Foreign Investors and Governments have been selling their dollars and hedging their remaining exposure with Gold and Oil.
What we are looking at is the following possibilities before Winter.
8 buck gas per gallon.
Food cost double if not triples.
Massive Private Sector Layoffs that made 08 look like a cake walk.
Municipalities going broke for real....no money at all and no access to money, laying off massive employees and scrambling for basic services. (keep in mind this will depend on each state and its Fiscal house.)
Serious migration out of the East Coast cities/Mid west cities by people who can afford to relocate and who have "Skills" needed in the work force.
We have been here before, except with the massive paper printing. We will follow the same pattern across the country much like during the Depression of the 1930s, however, we do not know how bad inflation will get. The US has never in its history printed up so much money. The only correlation in the world is ZImbawae and Wiemer Germany. (SP?) and we all know how that ended.
Bottom line, get your "house' in order and prepare. This is no joke and many people are about to wake up to a nightmare that they have tried to ignore.